frétiller
French, verb/fʁe.ti.je/
frétiller is spelled F-R-É-T-I-L-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 109,514th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frétiller is a French verb meaning “to wriggle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se remuer ; s’agiter par des mouvements vifs et courts”.
What does frétiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wriggle
- 2
to wag (of a tail)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se remuer ; s’agiter par des mouvements vifs et courts. 2. Être pris d'agitation.
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 frétiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- frétillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- frétillé participle past
- frétille first-person indicative present
- frétilles indicative present second-person
- frétillons first-person indicative plural
- frétillez indicative plural present
- frétillent indicative plural present
- frétillais first-person imperfect indicative
- frétillait imperfect indicative singular
- frétillions first-person imperfect indicative
- frétilliez imperfect indicative plural
- frétillaient imperfect indicative plural
- frétillai first-person historic indicative
- frétillas historic indicative past
- frétilla historic indicative past
- frétillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frétiller?
- /fʁe.ti.je/
- \fʁe.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 frétiller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is frétiller in French?
frétiller appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).