grouiller
French, verb/ɡʁu.je/
grouiller is spelled G-R-O-U-I-L-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 91,528th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grouiller is a French verb meaning “to mill about, swarm with people” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Remuer en masse confuse, abonder, pulluler”.
What does grouiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mill about, swarm with people
- 2
to swarm or crawl
La place grouille de touristes.
- 3
colloquialto hurry; to get a move on
Grouille-toi, hein?
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Remuer en masse confuse, abonder, pulluler. 2. Être rempli d’une masse grouillante, en parlant d’une chose ou d’un lieu. 3. ou Bouger, remuer. 4. Faire du bruit, gargouiller, en parlant des intestins, de l’abdomen.
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 grouiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- grouillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- grouillé participle past
- grouille first-person indicative present
- grouilles indicative present second-person
- grouillons first-person indicative plural
- grouillez indicative plural present
- grouillent indicative plural present
- grouillais first-person imperfect indicative
- grouillait imperfect indicative singular
- grouillions first-person imperfect indicative
- grouilliez imperfect indicative plural
- grouillaient imperfect indicative plural
- grouillai first-person historic indicative
- grouillas historic indicative past
- grouilla historic indicative past
- grouillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grouiller?
- /ɡʁu.je/
- \ɡʁu.je\
- [ɡʁu.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 grouiller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grouiller in French?
grouiller appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).