grommeler
French, verb/ɡʁɔm.le/
grommeler is spelled G-R-O-M-M-E-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 159,320th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grommeler is a French verb meaning “to grumble, mutter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Murmurer, se plaindre entre ses dents quand on est fâché”.
What does grommeler mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto grumble, mutter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Murmurer, se plaindre entre ses dents quand on est fâché.
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 grommeler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- grommelant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- grommelé participle past
- grommelle first-person indicative present
- grommèle first-person indicative present
- grommelles indicative present second-person
- grommèles indicative present second-person
- grommelons first-person indicative plural
- grommelez indicative plural present
- grommellent indicative plural present
- grommèlent indicative plural present
- grommelais first-person imperfect indicative
- grommelait imperfect indicative singular
- grommelions first-person imperfect indicative
- grommeliez imperfect indicative plural
- grommelaient imperfect indicative plural
- grommelai first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grommeler?
- /ɡʁɔm.le/
- \ɡʁɔm.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 grommeler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grommeler in French?
grommeler appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).