prénommer
French, verb/pʁe.nɔ.me/
prénommer is spelled P-R-É-N-O-M-M-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 132,154th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prénommer is a French verb meaning “to give a first name to someone; to call someone by their first name” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner pour prénom à (quelqu’un)”.
What does prénommer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to give a first name to someone; to call someone by their first name
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Donner pour prénom à (quelqu’un). 2. Avoir comme prénom.
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 prénommer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- prénommant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- prénommé participle past
- prénomme first-person indicative present
- prénommes indicative present second-person
- prénommons first-person indicative plural
- prénommez indicative plural present
- prénomment indicative plural present
- prénommais first-person imperfect indicative
- prénommait imperfect indicative singular
- prénommions first-person imperfect indicative
- prénommiez imperfect indicative plural
- prénommaient imperfect indicative plural
- prénommai first-person historic indicative
- prénommas historic indicative past
- prénomma historic indicative past
- prénommâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prénommer?
- /pʁe.nɔ.me/
- \pʁe.nɔ.me\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is prénommer in French?
prénommer appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).