façonner
French, verb/fa.sɔ.ne/
façonner is spelled F-A-Ç-O-N-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,000th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Façonner is a French verb meaning “to work on, to shape, notably with tool(s); to fashion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Travailler une chose en vue de lui donner une certaine façon”.
What does façonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to work on, to shape, notably with tool(s); to fashion
- 2
to educate morally, spiritually
- 3
to perform labor
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Travailler une chose en vue de lui donner une certaine façon. 2. Former à quelque chose par l’enseignement, l’éducation, l’habitude.
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 façonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- façonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- façonné participle past
- façonne first-person indicative present
- façonnes indicative present second-person
- façonnons first-person indicative plural
- façonnez indicative plural present
- façonnent indicative plural present
- façonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- façonnait imperfect indicative singular
- façonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- façonniez imperfect indicative plural
- façonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- façonnai first-person historic indicative
- façonnas historic indicative past
- façonna historic indicative past
- façonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce façonner?
- /fa.sɔ.ne/
- \fa.sɔ.ne\
- [fa.sɔ.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to façonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is façonner in French?
façonner appears 1.3 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).