légender
French, verb/le.ʒɑ̃.de/
légender is spelled L-É-G-E-N-D-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written French, the 184,024th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Légender is a French verb meaning “to caption” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ajouter une légende à (une carte, une illustration, etc.)”.
What does légender mean in English?
verb
- 1
to caption
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ajouter une légende à (une carte, une illustration, etc.)
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 légender
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- légendant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- légendé participle past
- légende first-person indicative present
- légendes indicative present second-person
- légendons first-person indicative plural
- légendez indicative plural present
- légendent indicative plural present
- légendais first-person imperfect indicative
- légendait imperfect indicative singular
- légendions first-person imperfect indicative
- légendiez imperfect indicative plural
- légendaient imperfect indicative plural
- légendai first-person historic indicative
- légendas historic indicative past
- légenda historic indicative past
- légendâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce légender?
- /le.ʒɑ̃.de/
- \le.ʒɑ̃.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to légender
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is légender in French?
légender appears about once in every 33 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).