tisonner
French, verb/ti.zɔ.ne/
tisonner is spelled T-I-S-O-N-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written French, the 255,834th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tisonner is a French verb meaning “to poke” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Remuer les tisons”.
What does tisonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to poke
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Remuer les tisons.
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 tisonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tisonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tisonné participle past
- tisonne first-person indicative present
- tisonnes indicative present second-person
- tisonnons first-person indicative plural
- tisonnez indicative plural present
- tisonnent indicative plural present
- tisonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- tisonnait imperfect indicative singular
- tisonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- tisonniez imperfect indicative plural
- tisonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- tisonnai first-person historic indicative
- tisonnas historic indicative past
- tisonna historic indicative past
- tisonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tisonner?
- /ti.zɔ.ne/
- \ti.zɔ.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 tisonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tisonner in French?
tisonner appears about once in every 66 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).