cribler
French, verb/kʁi.ble/
cribler is spelled C-R-I-B-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 109,514th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cribler is a French verb meaning “to sift, sieve (filter through a sieve or screen)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Passer par le crible, nettoyer avec le crible”.
What does cribler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sift, sieve (filter through a sieve or screen)
- 2
to riddle (cover with holes)
- 3
to riddle, fill, cover (fill or cover with a multitude of)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Passer par le crible, nettoyer avec le crible. 2. Percer en beaucoup d’endroits. 3. Couvrir d'une nuée, d'une multitude de choses.
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 cribler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- criblant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- criblé participle past
- crible first-person indicative present
- cribles indicative present second-person
- criblons first-person indicative plural
- criblez indicative plural present
- criblent indicative plural present
- criblais first-person imperfect indicative
- criblait imperfect indicative singular
- criblions first-person imperfect indicative
- cribliez imperfect indicative plural
- criblaient imperfect indicative plural
- criblai first-person historic indicative
- criblas historic indicative past
- cribla historic indicative past
- criblâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cribler?
- /kʁi.ble/
- \kʁi.ble\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cribler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cribler in French?
cribler appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).