jongler
French, verb/ʒɔ̃.ɡle/
jongler is spelled J-O-N-G-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jongler is a French verb meaning “to juggle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire sauter plusieurs boules ou autres objets, qui s’entrecroisent en passant d’une main, voire d’un pied…”.
What does jongler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to juggle
- 2
datedto entertain
- 3
to think about, to worry about
- 4
to think of, to think about
- 5
to think, to meditate, to reflect, to ponder, to worry
- 6
to daydream, to dream
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire sauter plusieurs boules ou autres objets, qui s’entrecroisent en passant d’une main, voire d’un pied, dans l’autre. 2. Faire sauter un ballon sans qu’il touche le sol. 3. Faire des tours de toute sorte. 4. Discuter des difficultés ou les résoudre en se jouant.
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 jongler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- jonglant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- jonglé participle past
- jongle first-person indicative present
- jongles indicative present second-person
- jonglons first-person indicative plural
- jonglez indicative plural present
- jonglent indicative plural present
- jonglais first-person imperfect indicative
- jonglait imperfect indicative singular
- jonglions first-person imperfect indicative
- jongliez imperfect indicative plural
- jonglaient imperfect indicative plural
- jonglai first-person historic indicative
- jonglas historic indicative past
- jongla historic indicative past
- jonglâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce jongler?
- /ʒɔ̃.ɡle/
- /ʒɑ̃.ɡle/
- \ʒɔ̃.ɡle\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to jongler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is jongler in French?
jongler appears 1.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).