réfréner
French, verb
réfréner is spelled R-É-F-R-É-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 75,533rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Réfréner is a French verb meaning “alternative form of refréner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, refréner is a different word: “to curb, repress”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de refréner”.
What does réfréner mean in English?
verb
- 1
alternative form of refréner
verb
- 1
to curb, repress
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ralentir. 2. Réprimer.
verb: 1. Variante de refréner.
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 réfréner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- réfrénant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- réfréné participle past
- réfrène first-person indicative present
- réfrènes indicative present second-person
- réfrénons first-person indicative plural
- réfrénez indicative plural present
- réfrènent indicative plural present
- réfrénais first-person imperfect indicative
- réfrénait imperfect indicative singular
- réfrénions first-person imperfect indicative
- réfréniez imperfect indicative plural
- réfrénaient imperfect indicative plural
- réfrénai first-person historic indicative
- réfrénas historic indicative past
- réfréna historic indicative past
- réfrénâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to réfréner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is réfréner in French?
réfréner appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).