évincer
French, verb/e.vɛ̃.se/
évincer is spelled É-V-I-N-C-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 37,217th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Évincer is a French verb meaning “to evict (expel)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déposséder juridiquement quelqu’un, d’une chose qu'il possède”.
What does évincer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to evict (expel)
- 2
to depose
- 3
to knock out, eliminate, do away with, see off
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Déposséder juridiquement quelqu’un, d’une chose qu'il possède. 2. Écarter quelqu’un d’une candidature ou d’une compétition. 3. Déposséder quelqu’un de son droit, de sa place, de sa situation, généralement à son propre profit, se substituer à.
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 évincer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- évinçant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- évincé participle past
- évince first-person indicative present
- évinces indicative present second-person
- évinçons first-person indicative plural
- évincez indicative plural present
- évincent indicative plural present
- évinçais first-person imperfect indicative
- évinçait imperfect indicative singular
- évincions first-person imperfect indicative
- évinciez imperfect indicative plural
- évinçaient imperfect indicative plural
- évinçai first-person historic indicative
- évinças historic indicative past
- évinça historic indicative past
- évinçâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce évincer?
- /e.vɛ̃.se/
- \e.vɛ̃.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to évincer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is évincer in French?
évincer appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).