driller
French, verb/dʁi.le/
driller is spelled D-R-I-L-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 31 million words in written French, the 177,898th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Driller is a French verb meaning “to drill (to instruct, to train, to coach)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Percer avec une drille”.
What does driller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drill (to instruct, to train, to coach)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Percer avec une drille.
verb: 1. Courir, aller vite et légèrement. 2. Briller, étinceler.
verb: 1. Interroger sans ménagement. 2. Mettre dans la tête, inculquer. 3. Extraire des informations d’une base de données. 4. Forer, percer à l’aide d’une foreuse ou d’une perceuse.
noun: 1. Chiffonnier.
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 driller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- drillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- drillé participle past
- drille first-person indicative present
- drilles indicative present second-person
- drillons first-person indicative plural
- drillez indicative plural present
- drillent indicative plural present
- drillais first-person imperfect indicative
- drillait imperfect indicative singular
- drillions first-person imperfect indicative
- drilliez imperfect indicative plural
- drillaient imperfect indicative plural
- drillai first-person historic indicative
- drillas historic indicative past
- drilla historic indicative past
- drillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce driller?
- /dʁi.le/
- \dʁi.je\
- \dʁi.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is driller in French?
driller appears about once in every 31 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).