scanner
French, noun/ska.ne/
scanner is spelled S-C-A-N-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written French, the 12,122nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scanner is a French masculine noun meaning “an X-ray scanner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appareil d'analyse médicale à rayons X”.
What does scanner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scan (to create a digital copy of an image using a scanner)
noun
- 1
masculinean X-ray scanner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Analyser automatiquement un document, un objet, ou un environnement pour le transformer en fichier numérique. 2. Lire un code-barre, un QR code, ou tout autre pictogramme similaire au moyen d’un appareil dédié. 3. Contrôler avec des moyens d’imagerie tels les rayons X. 4. Examiner de façon détaillée pour étudier.
noun: 1. Appareil d'analyse médicale à rayons X. 2. Test passé avec cet appareil.
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 scanner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- scannant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- scanné participle past
- scanne first-person indicative present
- scannes indicative present second-person
- scannons first-person indicative plural
- scannez indicative plural present
- scannent indicative plural present
- scannais first-person imperfect indicative
- scannait imperfect indicative singular
- scannions first-person imperfect indicative
- scanniez imperfect indicative plural
- scannaient imperfect indicative plural
- scannai first-person historic indicative
- scannas historic indicative past
- scanna historic indicative past
- scannâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce scanner?
- /ska.ne/
- /ska.nɛʁ/
- \ska.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 scanner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is scanner in French?
scanner appears 4.5 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).