bouillir
French, verb/bu.jiʁ/
bouillir is spelled B-O-U-I-L-L-I-R (8 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written French, the 16,568th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bouillir is a French verb meaning “to boil (becoming boiling; reach boiling point)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être dans l’état d’ébullition”.
What does bouillir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to boil (becoming boiling; reach boiling point)
- 2
to boil (cause to boil)
- 3
to seethe
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être dans l’état d’ébullition. 2. Cuire dans l’eau ou dans un autre liquide porté à ébullition. 3. Porter à ébullition le récipient où l’on fait cuire quelque chose. 4. Fermenter, en parlant du raisin dans la cuve après la vendange. → voir bouillage et bouillaison
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 bouillir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bouillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bouilli participle past
- bous first-person indicative present
- bout indicative present singular
- bouillons first-person indicative plural
- bouillez indicative plural present
- bouillent indicative plural present
- bouillais first-person imperfect indicative
- bouillait imperfect indicative singular
- bouillions first-person imperfect indicative
- bouilliez imperfect indicative plural
- bouillaient imperfect indicative plural
- bouillis first-person historic indicative
- bouillit historic indicative past
- bouillîmes first-person historic indicative
- bouillîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bouillir?
- /bu.jiʁ/
- \bu.jiʁ\
- [bu.jiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bouillir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bouillir in French?
bouillir appears 2.8 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).