aiguiller
French, verb/ɛ.ɡɥi.je/
aiguiller is spelled A-I-G-U-I-L-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,397th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aiguiller is a French verb meaning “to direct (towards)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire passer un train en marche d’une voie sur une autre à l’aide d’un aiguillage”.
What does aiguiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to direct (towards)
- 2
to change / switch points (railway)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire passer un train en marche d’une voie sur une autre à l’aide d’un aiguillage. 2. Diriger vers un nouveau but, un nouvel objet.
noun: 1. Ouvrier qui fabrique des aiguilles.
noun: 1. Étui à aiguilles.
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 aiguiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- aiguillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- aiguillé participle past
- aiguille first-person indicative present
- aiguilles indicative present second-person
- aiguillons first-person indicative plural
- aiguillez indicative plural present
- aiguillent indicative plural present
- aiguillais first-person imperfect indicative
- aiguillait imperfect indicative singular
- aiguillions first-person imperfect indicative
- aiguilliez imperfect indicative plural
- aiguillaient imperfect indicative plural
- aiguillai first-person historic indicative
- aiguillas historic indicative past
- aiguilla historic indicative past
- aiguillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aiguiller?
- /ɛ.ɡɥi.je/
- /e.ɡɥi.je/
- \e.ɡɥi.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aiguiller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aiguiller in French?
aiguiller appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).