guillocher
French, verb/ɡi.jɔ.ʃe/
guillocher is spelled G-U-I-L-L-O-C-H-E-R (10 letters). Guillocher is a French verb meaning “to guilloche” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Orner d’un guillochis, d’un ensemble de lignes, de traits ondés qui s’entrelacent ou se croisent avec…”.
What does guillocher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to guilloche
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Orner d’un guillochis, d’un ensemble de lignes, de traits ondés qui s’entrelacent ou se croisent avec symétrie.
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 guillocher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- guillochant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- guilloché participle past
- guilloche first-person indicative present
- guilloches indicative present second-person
- guillochons first-person indicative plural
- guillochez indicative plural present
- guillochent indicative plural present
- guillochais first-person imperfect indicative
- guillochait imperfect indicative singular
- guillochions first-person imperfect indicative
- guillochiez imperfect indicative plural
- guillochaient imperfect indicative plural
- guillochai first-person historic indicative
- guillochas historic indicative past
- guillocha historic indicative past
- guillochâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce guillocher?
- /ɡi.jɔ.ʃe/
- \ɡi.jɔ.ʃe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.