cailler
French, verb/ka.je/
cailler is spelled C-A-I-L-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 63,613th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cailler is a French verb meaning “to curdle, clot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Solidifier, coaguler”.
What does cailler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to curdle, clot
- 2
slangto be very cold, to be brass monkeys
Ça caille ici !
- 3
slangto be very cold, to freeze
Il fait combien ici ? Je caille.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Solidifier, coaguler. 2. Provoquer la coagulation. 3. Faire froid. 4. Avoir froid.
verb: 1. S’endormir.
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 cailler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- caillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- caillé participle past
- caille first-person indicative present
- cailles indicative present second-person
- caillons first-person indicative plural
- caillez indicative plural present
- caillent indicative plural present
- caillais first-person imperfect indicative
- caillait imperfect indicative singular
- caillions first-person imperfect indicative
- cailliez imperfect indicative plural
- caillaient imperfect indicative plural
- caillai first-person historic indicative
- caillas historic indicative past
- cailla historic indicative past
- caillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cailler?
- /ka.je/
- /kɑ.je/
- \ka.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 cailler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cailler in French?
cailler appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).