ricaner
French, verb/ʁi.ka.ne/
ricaner is spelled R-I-C-A-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 54,486th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ricaner is a French verb meaning “to giggle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rire avec une affectation d’impertinence et dans une intention de moquerie”.
What does ricaner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to giggle
- 2
to sneer, smile grimly
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rire avec une affectation d’impertinence et dans une intention de moquerie. 2. Faire un rictus.
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 ricaner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ricanant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ricané participle past
- ricane first-person indicative present
- ricanes indicative present second-person
- ricanons first-person indicative plural
- ricanez indicative plural present
- ricanent indicative plural present
- ricanais first-person imperfect indicative
- ricanait imperfect indicative singular
- ricanions first-person imperfect indicative
- ricaniez imperfect indicative plural
- ricanaient imperfect indicative plural
- ricanai first-person historic indicative
- ricanas historic indicative past
- ricana historic indicative past
- ricanâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ricaner?
- /ʁi.ka.ne/
- \ʁi.ka.ne\
- [ʁi.ka.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ricaner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ricaner in French?
ricaner appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).