enflammer
French, verb/ɑ̃.fla.me/
enflammer is spelled E-N-F-L-A-M-M-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 21,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enflammer is a French verb meaning “to set fire to, to set on fire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre en flamme”.
What does enflammer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to set fire to, to set on fire
- 2
to inflame, to fuel (e.g. a debate, hatred)
- 3
to catch fire
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre en flamme. 2. Donner la couleur des flammes. 3. Causer une inflammation. 4. Animer d’une vive passion, particulièrement en parlant des effets de l’amour.
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 enflammer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- enflammant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- enflammé participle past
- enflamme first-person indicative present
- enflammes indicative present second-person
- enflammons first-person indicative plural
- enflammez indicative plural present
- enflamment indicative plural present
- enflammais first-person imperfect indicative
- enflammait imperfect indicative singular
- enflammions first-person imperfect indicative
- enflammiez imperfect indicative plural
- enflammaient imperfect indicative plural
- enflammai first-person historic indicative
- enflammas historic indicative past
- enflamma historic indicative past
- enflammâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enflammer?
- /ɑ̃.fla.me/
- \ɑ̃.fla.me\
- [ɑ̃.fla.me]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is enflammer in French?
enflammer appears 1.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).