bousculer
French, verb/bus.ky.le/
bousculer is spelled B-O-U-S-C-U-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,380th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bousculer is a French verb meaning “to shove, to bump into, to jostle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre en désordre”.
What does bousculer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shove, to bump into, to jostle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre en désordre. 2. Pousser en tous sens. 3. Désordonner. 4. Se pousser en tous sens.
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 bousculer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bousculant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bousculé participle past
- bouscule first-person indicative present
- bouscules indicative present second-person
- bousculons first-person indicative plural
- bousculez indicative plural present
- bousculent indicative plural present
- bousculais first-person imperfect indicative
- bousculait imperfect indicative singular
- bousculions first-person imperfect indicative
- bousculiez imperfect indicative plural
- bousculaient imperfect indicative plural
- bousculai first-person historic indicative
- bousculas historic indicative past
- bouscula historic indicative past
- bousculâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bousculer?
- /bus.ky.le/
- \bus.ky.le\
- [bus.ky.le]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bousculer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bousculer in French?
bousculer appears 2.0 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).