hameçonner
French, verb/am.sɔ.ne/
hameçonner is spelled H-A-M-E-Ç-O-N-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written French, the 209,747th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hameçonner is a French verb meaning “to attract and seduce by a deceptive appearance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Garnir d’hameçon”.
What does hameçonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to attract and seduce by a deceptive appearance
- 2
to phish
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Garnir d’hameçon. 2. Attraper par la ruse. 3. Envoyer un faux courriel à (quelqu’un) en usurpant l’identité d’une société pour l’inciter à se connecter à un faux site via un lien fourni, afin de récupérer ses informations d’identification.
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 hameçonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- hameçonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- hameçonné participle past
- hameçonne first-person indicative present
- hameçonnes indicative present second-person
- hameçonnons first-person indicative plural
- hameçonnez indicative plural present
- hameçonnent indicative plural present
- hameçonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- hameçonnait imperfect indicative singular
- hameçonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- hameçonniez imperfect indicative plural
- hameçonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- hameçonnai first-person historic indicative
- hameçonnas historic indicative past
- hameçonna historic indicative past
- hameçonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hameçonner?
- /am.sɔ.ne/
- \am.sɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is hameçonner in French?
hameçonner appears about once in every 44 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).