ferrailler
French, verb/fɛ.ʁa.je/
ferrailler is spelled F-E-R-R-A-I-L-L-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written French, the 138,201st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ferrailler is a French verb meaning “to fight with swords” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dans un combat ou dans un assaut, manier à tort et à travers épées, sabres ou fleurets”.
What does ferrailler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fight with swords
- 2
to cross swords
- 3
to fight, to struggle for
- 4
to scrap or recycle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dans un combat ou dans un assaut, manier à tort et à travers épées, sabres ou fleurets. 2. Discuter âprement ; contester. 3. Disposer des fers à béton dans un coffrage pour produire du béton armé. 4. Mettre au rebut, au recyclage, des ferrailles sans usage.
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 ferrailler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ferraillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ferraillé participle past
- ferraille first-person indicative present
- ferrailles indicative present second-person
- ferraillons first-person indicative plural
- ferraillez indicative plural present
- ferraillent indicative plural present
- ferraillais first-person imperfect indicative
- avoir ferraillé infinitive past
- en ferraillant gerund present
- en ayant ferraillé gerund past
- je ferraille indicative present
- tu ferrailles indicative present
- il/elle/on ferraille indicative present
- nous ferraillons indicative present
- vous ferraillez indicative present
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ferrailler?
- /fɛ.ʁa.je/
- /fɛ.ʁɑ.je/
- /fe.ʁa.je/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ferrailler in French?
ferrailler appears about once in every 18 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).