enfourner
French, verb/ɑ̃.fuʁ.ne/
enfourner is spelled E-N-F-O-U-R-N-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,828th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enfourner is a French verb meaning “to put in the oven” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre dans le four”.
What does enfourner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to put in the oven
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre dans le four. 2. Enfermer ou renfermer sommairement ou sans ménagement.
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 enfourner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- enfournant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- enfourné participle past
- enfourne first-person indicative present
- enfournes indicative present second-person
- enfournons first-person indicative plural
- enfournez indicative plural present
- enfournent indicative plural present
- enfournais first-person imperfect indicative
- enfournait imperfect indicative singular
- enfournions first-person imperfect indicative
- enfourniez imperfect indicative plural
- enfournaient imperfect indicative plural
- enfournai first-person historic indicative
- enfournas historic indicative past
- enfourna historic indicative past
- enfournâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enfourner?
- /ɑ̃.fuʁ.ne/
- \ɑ̃.fuʁ.ne\
- [ɑ̃.fuʁ.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is enfourner in French?
enfourner appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).