grêler
French, verb/ɡʁɛ.le/
grêler is spelled G-R-Ê-L-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 69 million words in written French, the 261,491st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grêler is a French verb meaning “to hail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tomber, en parlant de la grêle”.
What does grêler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hail
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tomber, en parlant de la grêle. 2. Gâter par la grêle. 3. Arriver continument, frapper de façon répétée. 4. Faire de grandes pertes, avoir de grandes infortunes.
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 grêler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- grêlant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- grêlé participle past
- grêle indicative present singular
- grêlent indicative plural present
- grêlait imperfect indicative singular
- grêlaient imperfect indicative plural
- grêla historic indicative past
- grêlèrent historic indicative past
- grêlera future indicative singular
- grêleront future indicative plural
- grêlerait conditional singular third-person
- grêleraient conditional plural third-person
- present indicative of avoir + past participle indicative multiword-construction perfect
- imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle indicative multiword-construction pluperfect
- past historic of avoir + past participle anterior indicative multiword-construction
- future of avoir + past participle future indicative multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grêler?
- /ɡʁɛ.le/
- /ɡʁe.le/
- \ɡʁe.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to grêler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grêler in French?
grêler appears about once in every 69 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).