couiner
French, verb/kwi.ne/
couiner is spelled C-O-U-I-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 67,389th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Couiner is a French verb meaning “to creak, squeak” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Grincer, se plaindre”.
What does couiner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to creak, squeak
- 2
to squeal, squeak
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Grincer, se plaindre. 2. Émettre un couinement, le cri du lapin, du lièvre lorsqu’il est pris en chasse. 3. Émettre un couinement, un cri aigu, en parlant d’autres animaux.
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 couiner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- couinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- couiné participle past
- couine first-person indicative present
- couines indicative present second-person
- couinons first-person indicative plural
- couinez indicative plural present
- couinent indicative plural present
- couinais first-person imperfect indicative
- couinait imperfect indicative singular
- couinions first-person imperfect indicative
- couiniez imperfect indicative plural
- couinaient imperfect indicative plural
- couinai first-person historic indicative
- couinas historic indicative past
- couina historic indicative past
- couinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce couiner?
- /kwi.ne/
- \kwi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to couiner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is couiner in French?
couiner 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).