guigner
French, noun/ɡi.ɲe/
guigner is spelled G-U-I-G-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written French, the 221,532nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guigner is a French masculine noun meaning “wild cherry tree” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de guignier”.
What does guigner mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewild cherry tree
verb
- 1
to eye (sneak a look at)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fermer à demi les yeux en regardant du coin de l'œil. 2. Regarder sans faire semblant. 3. Épier attentivement, convoiter avidement.
noun: 1. Variante de guignier.
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 guigner
- guigners plural
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- guignant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- guigné participle past
- guigne first-person indicative present
- guignes indicative present second-person
- guignons first-person indicative plural
- guignez indicative plural present
- guignent indicative plural present
- guignais first-person imperfect indicative
- guignait imperfect indicative singular
- guignions first-person imperfect indicative
- guigniez imperfect indicative plural
- guignaient imperfect indicative plural
- guignai first-person historic indicative
- guignas historic indicative past
- guigna historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce guigner?
- /ɡi.ɲe/
- \ɡi.ɲe\
- [ɡi.ɲe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to guigner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is guigner in French?
guigner appears about once in every 49 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).