poinçonner
French, verb/pwɛ̃.sɔ.ne/
poinçonner is spelled P-O-I-N-Ç-O-N-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 168,321st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Poinçonner is a French verb meaning “to stamp, punch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Marquer avec un poinçon”.
What does poinçonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stamp, punch
- 2
to hallmark
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Marquer avec un poinçon. 2. Perforer des billets de chemin de fer, leur faire une marque pour indiquer qu’ils ont été contrôlés.
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 poinçonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- poinçonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- poinçonné participle past
- poinçonne first-person indicative present
- poinçonnes indicative present second-person
- poinçonnons first-person indicative plural
- poinçonnez indicative plural present
- poinçonnent indicative plural present
- poinçonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- poinçonnait imperfect indicative singular
- poinçonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- poinçonniez imperfect indicative plural
- poinçonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- poinçonnai first-person historic indicative
- poinçonnas historic indicative past
- poinçonna historic indicative past
- poinçonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce poinçonner?
- /pwɛ̃.sɔ.ne/
- \pwɛ̃.sɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is poinçonner in French?
poinçonner appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).