coulisser
French, verb/ku.li.se/
coulisser is spelled C-O-U-L-I-S-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 94,626th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coulisser is a French verb meaning “to slide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Glisser sur des coulisses”.
What does coulisser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to slide
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Glisser sur des coulisses. 2. Glisser sur un axe parallèle à quelque chose. 3. Mettre des coulisses sur un tissu, un vêtement. 4. Faire bouger comme sur des coulisses.
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 coulisser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- coulissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- coulissé participle past
- coulisse first-person indicative present
- coulisses indicative present second-person
- coulissons first-person indicative plural
- coulissez indicative plural present
- coulissent indicative plural present
- coulissais first-person imperfect indicative
- coulissait imperfect indicative singular
- coulissions first-person imperfect indicative
- coulissiez imperfect indicative plural
- coulissaient imperfect indicative plural
- coulissai first-person historic indicative
- coulissas historic indicative past
- coulissa historic indicative past
- coulissâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce coulisser?
- /ku.li.se/
- \ku.li.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is coulisser in French?
coulisser appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).