cambrioler
French, verb/kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.le/
cambrioler is spelled C-A-M-B-R-I-O-L-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 32,322nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cambrioler is a French verb meaning “to burgle (UK), burglarize (US)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Voler, dévaliser un local après y être entré par effraction, escalade ou en utilisant des fausses clés”.
What does cambrioler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to burgle (UK), burglarize (US)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Voler, dévaliser un local après y être entré par effraction, escalade ou en utilisant des fausses clés.
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 cambrioler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cambriolant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cambriolé participle past
- cambriole first-person indicative present
- cambrioles indicative present second-person
- cambriolons first-person indicative plural
- cambriolez indicative plural present
- cambriolent indicative plural present
- cambriolais first-person imperfect indicative
- cambriolait imperfect indicative singular
- cambriolions first-person imperfect indicative
- cambrioliez imperfect indicative plural
- cambriolaient imperfect indicative plural
- cambriolai first-person historic indicative
- cambriolas historic indicative past
- cambriola historic indicative past
- cambriolâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cambrioler?
- /kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.le/
- \kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ.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 cambrioler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cambrioler in French?
cambrioler appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).