encanailler
French, verb/ɑ̃.ka.na.je/
encanailler is spelled E-N-C-A-N-A-I-L-L-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 107,057th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encanailler is a French verb meaning “to socialise with the riffraff” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Inciter quelqu’un à déchoir, à se déshonorer en lui faisant fréquenter la canaille”.
What does encanailler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to socialise with the riffraff
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Inciter quelqu’un à déchoir, à se déshonorer en lui faisant fréquenter la canaille. 2. Rendre canaille, coquin. 3. Hanter de la canaille ; avoir commerce, se lier avec de la canaille. 4. Sortir des règles, des académismes...
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of encanailler
- avoir encanaillé infinitive past
- en encanaillant gerund present
- en ayant encanaillé gerund past
- encanaillant participle present
- encanaillé participle past
- j’encanaille indicative present
- tu encanailles indicative present
- il/elle/on encanaille indicative present
- nous encanaillons indicative present
- vous encanaillez indicative present
- ils/elles encanaillent indicative present
- j’ai encanaillé indicative past multiword-construction
- tu as encanaillé indicative past multiword-construction
- il/elle/on a encanaillé indicative past multiword-construction
- nous avons encanaillé indicative past multiword-construction
- vous avez encanaillé indicative past multiword-construction
- ils/elles ont encanaillé indicative past multiword-construction
- j’encanaillais indicative imperfect
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encanailler?
- /ɑ̃.ka.na.je/
- \ɑ̃.ka.nɑ.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is encanailler in French?
encanailler appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).