ranger
French, noun/ʁɑ̃.ʒe/
ranger is spelled R-A-N-G-E-R (6 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,537th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ranger is a French feminine noun meaning “a ranger, one who looks after a region” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Soldat d’un corps d’élite dans l’armée de terre américaine et dans d’autres pays anglo-saxons”.
What does ranger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to order, to arrange
- 2
to put away, to put aside, to stack away, to stow
- 3
to park (a car)
- 4
to go along
Elle s'est rangée à son avis.
noun
- 1
femininemasculinea ranger, one who looks after a region
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Soldat d’un corps d’élite dans l’armée de terre américaine et dans d’autres pays anglo-saxons. 2. Garde d’une réserve animalière en Afrique. 3. Désignation du grade d’un membre des Rangers canadiens détenant le grade de soldat. 4. Scout.
noun: 1. Chaussure portée par le corps des rangers ou les militaires.
verb: 1. Mettre en rang. 2. Mettre en ordre quelque chose, ordonner. 3. Mettre chaque élément à sa place, placer. 4. Classer dans un ordre déterminé.
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 ranger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rangeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rangé participle past
- range first-person indicative present
- ranges indicative present second-person
- rangeons first-person indicative plural
- rangez indicative plural present
- rangent indicative plural present
- rangeais first-person imperfect indicative
- rangeait imperfect indicative singular
- rangions first-person imperfect indicative
- rangiez imperfect indicative plural
- rangeaient imperfect indicative plural
- rangeai first-person historic indicative
- rangeas historic indicative past
- rangea historic indicative past
- rangeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ranger?
- /ʁɑ̃.ʒe/
- /ʁɑ̃.dʒœʁ/
- \ʁɑ̃.d͡ʒœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ranger
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ranger in French?
ranger appears 13 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).