frissonner
French, verb/fʁi.sɔ.ne/
frissonner is spelled F-R-I-S-S-O-N-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 39,210th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frissonner is a French verb meaning “tremble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Avoir le frisson, un tremblement causé par le froid ou la fièvre”.
What does frissonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
tremble
- 2
shiver
- 3
rustle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Avoir le frisson, un tremblement causé par le froid ou la fièvre. 2. Frémir soudainement à la suite d’une émotion très vive. 3. Trembler, frémir, en parlant des objets.
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 frissonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- frissonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- frissonné participle past
- frissonne first-person indicative present
- frissonnes indicative present second-person
- frissonnons first-person indicative plural
- frissonnez indicative plural present
- frissonnent indicative plural present
- frissonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- frissonnait imperfect indicative singular
- frissonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- frissonniez imperfect indicative plural
- frissonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- frissonnai first-person historic indicative
- frissonnas historic indicative past
- frissonna historic indicative past
- frissonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frissonner?
- /fʁi.sɔ.ne/
- \fʁi.sɔ.ne\
- [fʁi.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 frissonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is frissonner in French?
frissonner 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).