chatouiller
French, verb/ʃa.tu.je/
chatouiller is spelled C-H-A-T-O-U-I-L-L-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chatouiller is a French verb meaning “to tickle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Causer, par des attouchements légers et répétés, un tressaillement qui provoque le rire”.
What does chatouiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tickle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Causer, par des attouchements légers et répétés, un tressaillement qui provoque le rire. 2. Tout ce qui produit sur les sens des impressions agréables. 3. Flatter agréablement. 4. Toucher légèrement.
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 chatouiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chatouillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chatouillé participle past
- chatouille first-person indicative present
- chatouilles indicative present second-person
- chatouillons first-person indicative plural
- chatouillez indicative plural present
- chatouillent indicative plural present
- chatouillais first-person imperfect indicative
- chatouillait imperfect indicative singular
- chatouillions first-person imperfect indicative
- chatouilliez imperfect indicative plural
- chatouillaient imperfect indicative plural
- chatouillai first-person historic indicative
- chatouillas historic indicative past
- chatouilla historic indicative past
- chatouillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chatouiller?
- /ʃa.tu.je/
- \ʃa.tu.je\
- [ʃa.tu.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 chatouiller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chatouiller in French?
chatouiller appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).