grattouiller
French, verb/ɡʁa.tu.je/
grattouiller is spelled G-R-A-T-T-O-U-I-L-L-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written French, the 304,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grattouiller is a French verb meaning “to itch, scratch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Démanger”.
What does grattouiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to itch, scratch
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Démanger. 2. Gratter.
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 grattouiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- grattouillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- grattouillé participle past
- grattouille first-person indicative present
- grattouilles indicative present second-person
- grattouillons first-person indicative plural
- grattouillez indicative plural present
- grattouillent indicative plural present
- grattouillais first-person imperfect indicative
- grattouillait imperfect indicative singular
- grattouillions first-person imperfect indicative
- grattouilliez imperfect indicative plural
- grattouillaient imperfect indicative plural
- grattouillai first-person historic indicative
- grattouillas historic indicative past
- grattouilla historic indicative past
- grattouillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grattouiller?
- /ɡʁa.tu.je/
- \ɡʁa.tu.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is grattouiller in French?
grattouiller appears about once in every 95 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).