caracoler
French, verb/ka.ʁa.kɔ.le/
caracoler is spelled C-A-R-A-C-O-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 144,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caracoler is a French verb meaning “to caracole” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire des caracoles”.
What does caracoler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to caracole
- 2
go round and round, buzz round, flit about, flit around
- 3
to sit pretty, to be (well) ahead, nestle (appear comfortable at the top of a ranking)
ses tubes caracolent en tête du classement
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire des caracoles. 2. Figurer avec fierté dans une situation avantageuse.
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 caracoler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- caracolant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- caracolé participle past
- caracole first-person indicative present
- caracoles indicative present second-person
- caracolons first-person indicative plural
- caracolez indicative plural present
- caracolent indicative plural present
- caracolais first-person imperfect indicative
- caracolait imperfect indicative singular
- caracolions first-person imperfect indicative
- caracoliez imperfect indicative plural
- caracolaient imperfect indicative plural
- caracolai first-person historic indicative
- caracolas historic indicative past
- caracola historic indicative past
- caracolâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce caracoler?
- /ka.ʁa.kɔ.le/
- \ka.ʁa.kɔ.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is caracoler in French?
caracoler appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).