effeuiller
French, verb/e.fœ.je/
effeuiller is spelled E-F-F-E-U-I-L-L-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 119,721st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Effeuiller is a French verb meaning “to thin out (the leaves of a tree, bush etc.); to pick or pull the leaves or petals from” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dépouiller de ses feuilles”.
What does effeuiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to thin out (the leaves of a tree, bush etc.); to pick or pull the leaves or petals from
- 2
to lose its leaves, shed its leaves
- 3
to strip (perform a striptease)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dépouiller de ses feuilles. 2. Dépouiller, retirer. 3. Détacher les pétales d’une fleur, les fleurs d’une inflorescence. 4. Détacher les feuillets d’un livre, d’un manuscrit.
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 effeuiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- effeuillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- effeuillé participle past
- effeuille first-person indicative present
- effeuilles indicative present second-person
- effeuillons first-person indicative plural
- effeuillez indicative plural present
- effeuillent indicative plural present
- effeuillais first-person imperfect indicative
- effeuillait imperfect indicative singular
- effeuillions first-person imperfect indicative
- effeuilliez imperfect indicative plural
- effeuillaient imperfect indicative plural
- effeuillai first-person historic indicative
- effeuillas historic indicative past
- effeuilla historic indicative past
- effeuillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce effeuiller?
- /e.fœ.je/
- \e.fœ.je\
- \ɛ.fœ.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is effeuiller in French?
effeuiller appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).