ligaturer
French, verb\li.ɡa.ty.ʁe\
ligaturer is spelled L-I-G-A-T-U-R-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 141,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ligaturer is a French verb meaning “to ligate (tie up with a ligature)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Serrer avec une ligature”.
What does ligaturer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ligate (tie up with a ligature)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Serrer avec une ligature. 2. Action de former une liaison phosphodiester entre deux polynucléotides. 3. Substituer un groupe d’œils ou glyphes par une ligature ou par des glyphes formant une ligature. 4. Fixer ou serrer avec une ficelle.
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 ligaturer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ligaturant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ligaturé participle past
- ligature first-person indicative present
- ligatures indicative present second-person
- ligaturons first-person indicative plural
- ligaturez indicative plural present
- ligaturent indicative plural present
- ligaturais first-person imperfect indicative
- ligaturait imperfect indicative singular
- ligaturions first-person imperfect indicative
- ligaturiez imperfect indicative plural
- ligaturaient imperfect indicative plural
- ligaturai first-person historic indicative
- ligaturas historic indicative past
- ligatura historic indicative past
- ligaturâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ligaturer?
- \li.ɡa.ty.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ligaturer in French?
ligaturer appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).