pionner
French, verb/pjɔ.ne/
pionner is spelled P-I-O-N-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 113,280th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pionner is a French verb meaning “to exchange (a piece)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “S’attacher, ou être contraint, à échanger ses pièces”.
What does pionner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to exchange (a piece)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. S’attacher, ou être contraint, à échanger ses pièces. 2. Donner un de ses pions et reprendre aussitôt celui de l’adversaire.
verb: 1. Se soûler.
verb: 1. Faire le travail d’un pionnier.
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 pionner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pionnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pionné participle past
- pionne first-person indicative present
- pionnes indicative present second-person
- pionnons first-person indicative plural
- pionnez indicative plural present
- pionnent indicative plural present
- pionnais first-person imperfect indicative
- pionnait imperfect indicative singular
- pionnions first-person imperfect indicative
- pionniez imperfect indicative plural
- pionnaient imperfect indicative plural
- pionnai first-person historic indicative
- pionnas historic indicative past
- pionna historic indicative past
- pionnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pionner?
- /pjɔ.ne/
- \pjɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pionner in French?
pionner appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).