entortiller
French, verb/ɑ̃.tɔʁ.ti.je/
entortiller is a French verb meaning “to wrap around, to twist around, to envelop” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Envelopper un objet dans quelque chose que l’on tortille ou tortiller quelque chose autour d’un objet”.
What does entortiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wrap around, to twist around, to envelop
- 2
to win over, to persuade especially with tricks
- 3
to muddle up (one's explanation)
- 4
to get tangled up, to get entangled
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Envelopper un objet dans quelque chose que l’on tortille ou tortiller quelque chose autour d’un objet. 2. Circonvenir quelqu’un, l’envelopper de ruses, de séductions. 3. Exprimer quelque chose d’une manière embarrassée, obscure, trop recherchée, soit à dessein, soit par défaut de netteté dans les idées. 4. S’attacher à d’autres en faisant plusieurs tours, en parlant des choses.
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 entortiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- entortillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- entortillé participle past
- entortille first-person indicative present
- entortilles indicative present second-person
- entortillons first-person indicative plural
- entortillez indicative plural present
- entortillent indicative plural present
- entortillais first-person imperfect indicative
- entortillait imperfect indicative singular
- entortillions first-person imperfect indicative
- entortilliez imperfect indicative plural
- entortillaient imperfect indicative plural
- entortillai first-person historic indicative
- entortillas historic indicative past
- entortilla historic indicative past
- entortillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce entortiller?
- /ɑ̃.tɔʁ.ti.je/
- \ɑ̃.tɔʁ.ti.je\
- [ɑ̃.tɔʁ.ti.je]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to entortiller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is entortiller in French?
entortiller appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).