crouler
French, verb/kʁu.le/
crouler is spelled C-R-O-U-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,020th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crouler is a French verb meaning “to collapse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tomber en s’affaissant, faire faillite”.
What does crouler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to collapse
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tomber en s’affaissant, faire faillite. 2. Être envahi, dépassé, débordé. 3. Agiter, secouer. 4. Agiter la queue de peur, en parlant d'un chien.
verb: 1. Pousser son cri, en parlant d'une bécassine.
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 crouler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- croulant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- croulé participle past
- croule first-person indicative present
- croules indicative present second-person
- croulons first-person indicative plural
- croulez indicative plural present
- croulent indicative plural present
- croulais first-person imperfect indicative
- croulait imperfect indicative singular
- croulions first-person imperfect indicative
- crouliez imperfect indicative plural
- croulaient imperfect indicative plural
- croulai first-person historic indicative
- croulas historic indicative past
- croula historic indicative past
- croulâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crouler?
- /kʁu.le/
- \kʁu.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is crouler in French?
crouler appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).