trépaner
French, verb/tʁe.pa.ne/
trépaner is spelled T-R-É-P-A-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written French, the 226,484th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trépaner is a French verb meaning “to trepan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire l’opération du trépan à quelqu’un”.
What does trépaner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to trepan
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire l’opération du trépan à quelqu’un. 2. Faire l’opération du trépan à quelque chose.
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 trépaner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- trépanant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- trépané participle past
- trépane first-person indicative present
- trépanes indicative present second-person
- trépanons first-person indicative plural
- trépanez indicative plural present
- trépanent indicative plural present
- trépanais first-person imperfect indicative
- trépanait imperfect indicative singular
- trépanions first-person imperfect indicative
- trépaniez imperfect indicative plural
- trépanaient imperfect indicative plural
- trépanai first-person historic indicative
- trépanas historic indicative past
- trépana historic indicative past
- trépanâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trépaner?
- /tʁe.pa.ne/
- \tʁe.pa.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is trépaner in French?
trépaner appears about once in every 51 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).