époustoufler
French, verb/e.pus.tu.fle/
époustoufler is spelled É-P-O-U-S-T-O-U-F-L-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written French, the 186,002nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Époustoufler is a French verb meaning “to amaze, to stupefy, to flabbergast” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Profondément étonner au point de couper le souffle”.
What does époustoufler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to amaze, to stupefy, to flabbergast
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Profondément étonner au point de couper le souffle.
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 époustoufler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- époustouflant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- époustouflé participle past
- époustoufle first-person indicative present
- époustoufles indicative present second-person
- époustouflons first-person indicative plural
- époustouflez indicative plural present
- époustouflent indicative plural present
- époustouflais first-person imperfect indicative
- époustouflait imperfect indicative singular
- époustouflions first-person imperfect indicative
- époustoufliez imperfect indicative plural
- époustouflaient imperfect indicative plural
- époustouflai first-person historic indicative
- époustouflas historic indicative past
- époustoufla historic indicative past
- époustouflâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce époustoufler?
- /e.pus.tu.fle/
- \e.pus.tu.fle\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to époustoufler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is époustoufler in French?
époustoufler appears about once in every 34 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).