ébouler
French, verb/e.bu.le/
ébouler is spelled É-B-O-U-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 81 million words in written French, the 282,260th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ébouler is a French verb meaning “to crumble or crumple” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Désagréger et faire tomber en ruine”.
What does ébouler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crumble or crumple
- 2
to collapse
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Désagréger et faire tomber en ruine. 2. Se désagréger et tomber en ruine. 3. S'affaisser.
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 ébouler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- éboulant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- éboulé participle past
- éboule first-person indicative present
- éboules indicative present second-person
- éboulons first-person indicative plural
- éboulez indicative plural present
- éboulent indicative plural present
- éboulais first-person imperfect indicative
- éboulait imperfect indicative singular
- éboulions first-person imperfect indicative
- ébouliez imperfect indicative plural
- éboulaient imperfect indicative plural
- éboulai first-person historic indicative
- éboulas historic indicative past
- éboula historic indicative past
- éboulâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ébouler?
- /e.bu.le/
- \e.bu.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ébouler in French?
ébouler appears about once in every 81 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).