goupille
French, noun
goupille is spelled G-O-U-P-I-L-L-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,824th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Goupille is a French feminine noun meaning “pin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of goupiller. With an accent, goupillé is a different word: “past participle of goupiller”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit cylindre, petite cheville métallique, dont on se sert dans l’horlogerie, dans l’armurerie, dans les…”.
What does goupille mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepin
- 2
femininecotter pin
- 3
archaicfemininevixen, female fox
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of goupiller
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit cylindre, petite cheville métallique, dont on se sert dans l’horlogerie, dans l’armurerie, dans les constructions mécaniques ou métalliques, pour arrêter quelques parties d’un assemblage mécanique.
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 goupille
- goupilles plural
- goupillée feminine
- goupillés masculine plural
- goupillées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to goupille
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is goupille in French?
goupille appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).