gribouillis
French, noun/ɡʁi.bu.ji/
gribouillis is spelled G-R-I-B-O-U-I-L-L-I-S (11 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 62,144th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gribouillis is a French masculine noun meaning “doodle (small mindless sketch)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dessin confus, sans forme reconnaissable, qui résulte du gribouillage”.
What does gribouillis mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedoodle (small mindless sketch)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dessin confus, sans forme reconnaissable, qui résulte du gribouillage.
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.
How do you pronounce gribouillis?
- /ɡʁi.bu.ji/
- \ɡʁi.bu.ji\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gribouillis
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gribouillis in French?
gribouillis appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).