rengorger
French, verb/ʁɑ̃.ɡɔʁ.ʒe/
rengorger is spelled R-E-N-G-O-R-G-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 72 million words in written French, the 267,323rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rengorger is a French verb meaning “to be filled with vanity and conceit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Avancer la gorge et retirer la tête un peu en arrière, par marque de vanité”.
What does rengorger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be filled with vanity and conceit
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Avancer la gorge et retirer la tête un peu en arrière, par marque de vanité. 2. Se montrer plus important pour rabaisser.
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 rengorger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rengorgeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rengorgé participle past
- rengorge first-person indicative present
- rengorges indicative present second-person
- rengorgeons first-person indicative plural
- rengorgez indicative plural present
- rengorgent indicative plural present
- rengorgeais first-person imperfect indicative
- rengorgeait imperfect indicative singular
- rengorgions first-person imperfect indicative
- rengorgiez imperfect indicative plural
- rengorgeaient imperfect indicative plural
- rengorgeai first-person historic indicative
- rengorgeas historic indicative past
- rengorgea historic indicative past
- rengorgeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rengorger?
- /ʁɑ̃.ɡɔʁ.ʒe/
- \ʁɑ̃.ɡɔʁ.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is rengorger in French?
rengorger appears about once in every 72 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).