orner
French, verb/ɔʁ.ne/
orner is spelled O-R-N-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Orner is a French verb meaning “to decorate, to adorn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Parer, embellir une chose, y ajouter, y joindre d’autres choses qui lui donnent plus d’éclat, plus d’agrément”.
What does orner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to decorate, to adorn
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Parer, embellir une chose, y ajouter, y joindre d’autres choses qui lui donnent plus d’éclat, plus d’agrément.
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 orner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ornant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- orné participle past
- orne first-person indicative present
- ornes indicative present second-person
- ornons first-person indicative plural
- ornez indicative plural present
- ornent indicative plural present
- ornais first-person imperfect indicative
- ornait imperfect indicative singular
- ornions first-person imperfect indicative
- orniez imperfect indicative plural
- ornaient imperfect indicative plural
- ornai first-person historic indicative
- ornas historic indicative past
- orna historic indicative past
- ornâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce orner?
- /ɔʁ.ne/
- \ɔʁ.ne\
- [ɔʁ.n̪e]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to orner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is orner in French?
orner appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).