lutiner
French, verb\ly.ti.ne\
lutiner is spelled L-U-T-I-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written French, the 239,448th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lutiner is a French verb meaning “to tease, provoke” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Agacer, taquiner”.
What does lutiner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tease, provoke
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Agacer, taquiner. 2. Provoquer, exciter par des taquineries galantes. 3. Faire le lutin.
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 lutiner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- lutinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- lutiné participle past
- lutine first-person indicative present
- lutines indicative present second-person
- lutinons first-person indicative plural
- lutinez indicative plural present
- lutinent indicative plural present
- lutinais first-person imperfect indicative
- lutinait imperfect indicative singular
- lutinions first-person imperfect indicative
- lutiniez imperfect indicative plural
- lutinaient imperfect indicative plural
- lutinai first-person historic indicative
- lutinas historic indicative past
- lutina historic indicative past
- lutinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lutiner?
- \ly.ti.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is lutiner in French?
lutiner appears about once in every 58 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).