griller
French, verb/ɡʁi.je/
griller is spelled G-R-I-L-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written French, the 13,537th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Griller is a French verb meaning “to toast (cook with a toaster)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Supplicier par le feu”.
What does griller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to toast (cook with a toaster)
- 2
to grill (cook with a grill)
- 3
to toast (heat up, said of e.g. skin)
- 4
colloquialto smoke (a cigarette)
- 5
to run; to pass a stop signal or stop sign, or without yielding right of way (at duty to yield)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Supplicier par le feu. 2. Rôtir sur le gril. 3. Chauffer des minerais métalliques au contact de l’air, de façon à les oxyder et à les dégager par volatilisation des matières étrangères. 4. Endommager, sécher ou mettre hors d’usage par une chaleur excessive.
verb: 1. Garnir d’une grille. 2. Enfermer derrière une grille, faire entrer en religion.
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 griller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- grillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- grillé participle past
- grille first-person indicative present
- grilles indicative present second-person
- grillons first-person indicative plural
- grillez indicative plural present
- grillent indicative plural present
- grillais first-person imperfect indicative
- grillait imperfect indicative singular
- grillions first-person imperfect indicative
- grilliez imperfect indicative plural
- grillaient imperfect indicative plural
- grillai first-person historic indicative
- grillas historic indicative past
- grilla historic indicative past
- grillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce griller?
- /ɡʁi.je/
- \ɡʁi.je\
- [ɡʁi.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 griller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is griller in French?
griller appears 3.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).