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enligner

French, verb/ɑ̃.li.ɲe/

enligner is spelled E-N-L-I-G-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written French, the 207,469th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enligner is a French verb meaning “to align” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bien mettre (des pièces) sur la même ligne”.

What does enligner mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    Quebecto align

  2. 2

    Quebecto head for, to head towards

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Bien mettre (des pièces) sur la même ligne. 2. Aligner. 3. se diriger vers.

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 enligner

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • enlignant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • enligné participle past
  • enligne first-person indicative present
  • enlignes indicative present second-person
  • enlignons first-person indicative plural
  • enlignez indicative plural present
  • enlignent indicative plural present
  • enlignais first-person imperfect indicative
  • enlignait imperfect indicative singular
  • enlignions first-person imperfect indicative
  • enligniez imperfect indicative plural
  • enlignaient imperfect indicative plural
  • enlignai first-person historic indicative
  • enlignas historic indicative past
  • enligna historic indicative past
  • enlignâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce enligner?

  • /ɑ̃.li.ɲe/
  • \ɑ̃.li.ɲe\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is enligner in French?

enligner appears about once in every 43 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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