distiller
French, verb/dis.ti.le/
distiller is spelled D-I-S-T-I-L-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 41,708th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Distiller is a French verb meaning “to distill” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Soumettre à la distillation”.
What does distiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to distill
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Soumettre à la distillation. 2. Être soumis à la distillation. 3. Extraire. 4. Entrainer un modèle, généralement de petite taille (dit « élève »), à reproduire le comportement et les prédictions d’un modèle complexe (dit « professeur »), afin de transférer les connaissances de l’un vers l’autre.
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 distiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- distillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- distillé participle past
- distille first-person indicative present
- distilles indicative present second-person
- distillons first-person indicative plural
- distillez indicative plural present
- distillent indicative plural present
- distillais first-person imperfect indicative
- distillait imperfect indicative singular
- distillions first-person imperfect indicative
- distilliez imperfect indicative plural
- distillaient imperfect indicative plural
- distillai first-person historic indicative
- distillas historic indicative past
- distilla historic indicative past
- distillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce distiller?
- /dis.ti.le/
- /dis.ti.je/
- \dis.ti.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to distiller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is distiller in French?
distiller appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).