racornir
French, verb\ʁa.kɔʁ.niʁ\
racornir is spelled R-A-C-O-R-N-I-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 85 million words in written French, the 288,492nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Racornir is a French verb meaning “to harden” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner à quelque chose la consistance de la corne”.
What does racornir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to harden
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Donner à quelque chose la consistance de la corne. 2. Dessécher, rendre dur et coriace.
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 racornir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- racornissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- racorni participle past
- racornis first-person indicative present
- racornit indicative present singular
- racornissons first-person indicative plural
- racornissez indicative plural present
- racornissent indicative plural present
- racornissais first-person imperfect indicative
- racornissait imperfect indicative singular
- racornissions first-person imperfect indicative
- racornissiez imperfect indicative plural
- racornissaient imperfect indicative plural
- racornîmes first-person historic indicative
- racornîtes historic indicative past
- racornirent historic indicative past
- racornirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce racornir?
- \ʁa.kɔʁ.niʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is racornir in French?
racornir appears about once in every 85 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).