pilonner
French, verb\pi.lɔ.ne\
pilonner is spelled P-I-L-O-N-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 68,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pilonner is a French verb meaning “to bombard, to shell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tasser la terre avec un pilon”.
What does pilonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bombard, to shell
- 2
to grind, to pound
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tasser la terre avec un pilon. 2. Écraser, broyer. 3. Écraser sous les obus. 4. Envoyer au pilon, éliminer.
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 pilonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pilonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pilonné participle past
- pilonne first-person indicative present
- pilonnes indicative present second-person
- pilonnons first-person indicative plural
- pilonnez indicative plural present
- pilonnent indicative plural present
- pilonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- pilonnait imperfect indicative singular
- pilonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- pilonniez imperfect indicative plural
- pilonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- pilonnai first-person historic indicative
- pilonnas historic indicative past
- pilonna historic indicative past
- pilonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pilonner?
- \pi.lɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pilonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pilonner in French?
pilonner appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).