feuilleter
French, verb/fœj.te/
feuilleter is spelled F-E-U-I-L-L-E-T-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 39,210th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Feuilleter is a French verb meaning “to leaf through (turn the pages of (a book) rapidly reading short sections at random)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Parcourir un livre, un manuscrit en tournant les feuillets”.
What does feuilleter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to leaf through (turn the pages of (a book) rapidly reading short sections at random)
- 2
to laminate (cause to separate into thin layers)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Parcourir un livre, un manuscrit en tournant les feuillets. 2. Diviser en lames minces comme des feuilles. 3. Préparer de la pâte de manière qu’elle se lève comme par feuillets.
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 feuilleter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- feuilletant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- feuilleté participle past
- feuillette first-person indicative present
- feuillète first-person indicative present
- feuillettes indicative present second-person
- feuillètes indicative present second-person
- feuilletons first-person indicative plural
- feuilletez indicative plural present
- feuillettent indicative plural present
- feuillètent indicative plural present
- feuilletais first-person imperfect indicative
- feuilletait imperfect indicative singular
- feuilletions first-person imperfect indicative
- feuilletiez imperfect indicative plural
- feuilletaient imperfect indicative plural
- feuilletai first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce feuilleter?
- /fœj.te/
- \fœj.te\
- [fœj.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to feuilleter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is feuilleter in French?
feuilleter appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).