chauler
French, verb/ʃo.le/
chauler is spelled C-H-A-U-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 85 million words in written French, the 288,492nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chauler is a French verb meaning “to whitewash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Amender la terre en y mettant de la chaux”.
What does chauler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to whitewash
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Amender la terre en y mettant de la chaux. 2. Enduire les troncs des arbres de chaux pour les préserver des insectes. 3. Enduire de chaux, blanchir à la chaux l’intérieur et l’extérieur des habitations principalement du pourtour méditerranéen. 4. Faire tremper les semences du blé dans de l’eau de chaux avant de le semer.
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 chauler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chaulant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chaulé participle past
- chaule first-person indicative present
- chaules indicative present second-person
- chaulons first-person indicative plural
- chaulez indicative plural present
- chaulent indicative plural present
- chaulais first-person imperfect indicative
- chaulait imperfect indicative singular
- chaulions first-person imperfect indicative
- chauliez imperfect indicative plural
- chaulaient imperfect indicative plural
- chaulai first-person historic indicative
- chaulas historic indicative past
- chaula historic indicative past
- chaulâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chauler?
- /ʃo.le/
- \ʃo.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chauler in French?
chauler appears about once in every 85 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).