grouillement
French, noun\ɡʁuj.mɑ̃\
grouillement is spelled G-R-O-U-I-L-L-E-M-E-N-T (12 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 173,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grouillement is a French masculine noun meaning “swarming; swarm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mouvement et bruit de ce qui grouille”.
What does grouillement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineswarming; swarm
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mouvement et bruit de ce qui grouille.
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 grouillement
- grouillements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grouillement?
- \ɡʁuj.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to grouillement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grouillement in French?
grouillement appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).