ruiner
French, verb/ʁɥi.ne/
ruiner is spelled R-U-I-N-E-R (6 letters) and appears 5.2 times per million words in written French, the 10,846th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ruiner is a French verb meaning “to ruin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Détruire, transformer en ruine, abattre”.
What does ruiner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ruin
- 2
to raze to the ground, to destroy, to wreck
- 3
to shatter (hope), to ruin (reputation)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Détruire, transformer en ruine, abattre. 2. Causer la perte des biens, de la fortune. 3. User et détériorer les chevaux.
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 ruiner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ruinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ruiné participle past
- ruine first-person indicative present
- ruines indicative present second-person
- ruinons first-person indicative plural
- ruinez indicative plural present
- ruinent indicative plural present
- ruinais first-person imperfect indicative
- ruinait imperfect indicative singular
- ruinions first-person imperfect indicative
- ruiniez imperfect indicative plural
- ruinaient imperfect indicative plural
- ruinai first-person historic indicative
- ruinas historic indicative past
- ruina historic indicative past
- ruinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ruiner?
- /ʁɥi.ne/
- \ʁɥi.ne\
- [ʁɥi.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 ruiner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ruiner in French?
ruiner appears 5.2 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).