rancir
French, verb\ʁɑ̃.siʁ\
rancir is spelled R-A-N-C-I-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written French, the 205,184th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rancir is a French verb meaning “to go rancid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Devenir rance, dégager une odeur rance”.
What does rancir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to go rancid
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Devenir rance, dégager une odeur rance. 2. S’altérer, se corrompre avec le temps.
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 rancir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rancissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ranci participle past
- rancis first-person indicative present
- rancit indicative present singular
- rancissons first-person indicative plural
- rancissez indicative plural present
- rancissent indicative plural present
- rancissais first-person imperfect indicative
- rancissait imperfect indicative singular
- rancissions first-person imperfect indicative
- rancissiez imperfect indicative plural
- rancissaient imperfect indicative plural
- rancîmes first-person historic indicative
- rancîtes historic indicative past
- rancirent historic indicative past
- rancirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rancir?
- \ʁɑ̃.siʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is rancir in French?
rancir appears about once in every 42 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).