fiancer
French, verb/fjɑ̃.se/
fiancer is spelled F-I-A-N-C-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 61,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fiancer is a French verb meaning “to get engaged (to be married)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Engager par une promesse de mariage”.
What does fiancer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to get engaged (to be married)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Engager par une promesse de mariage. 2. Diriger une cérémonie au cours de laquelle se font les promesses de mariage.
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 fiancer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fiançant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fiancé participle past
- fiance first-person indicative present
- fiances indicative present second-person
- fiançons first-person indicative plural
- fiancez indicative plural present
- fiancent indicative plural present
- fiançais first-person imperfect indicative
- fiançait imperfect indicative singular
- fiancions first-person imperfect indicative
- fianciez imperfect indicative plural
- fiançaient imperfect indicative plural
- fiançai first-person historic indicative
- fianças historic indicative past
- fiança historic indicative past
- fiançâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fiancer?
- /fjɑ̃.se/
- /fi.jɑ̃.se/
- \fi.(j)ɑ̃.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 fiancer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fiancer in French?
fiancer appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).