guiller
French, verb/ɡi.je/
guiller is spelled G-U-I-L-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written French, the 255,834th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guiller is a French verb meaning “to ferment, to cause the yeast to overflow from the barrel/keg” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se dit de la bière qui pousse la levure au dehors”.
What does guiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ferment, to cause the yeast to overflow from the barrel/keg
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se dit de la bière qui pousse la levure au dehors.
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 guiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- guillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- guillé participle past
- guille first-person indicative present
- guilles indicative present second-person
- guillons first-person indicative plural
- guillez indicative plural present
- guillent indicative plural present
- guillais first-person imperfect indicative
- guillait imperfect indicative singular
- guillions first-person imperfect indicative
- guilliez imperfect indicative plural
- guillaient imperfect indicative plural
- guillai first-person historic indicative
- guillas historic indicative past
- guilla historic indicative past
- guillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce guiller?
- /ɡi.je/
- \ɡi.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is guiller in French?
guiller appears about once in every 66 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).