magouiller
French, verb/ma.ɡu.je/
magouiller is a French verb meaning “to wangle, to achieve by contrivance or trickery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire des magouilles”.
What does magouiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto wangle, to achieve by contrivance or trickery
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire des magouilles. 2. Faire par des magouilles.
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 magouiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- magouillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- magouillé participle past
- magouille first-person indicative present
- magouilles indicative present second-person
- magouillons first-person indicative plural
- magouillez indicative plural present
- magouillent indicative plural present
- magouillais first-person imperfect indicative
- magouillait imperfect indicative singular
- magouillions first-person imperfect indicative
- magouilliez imperfect indicative plural
- magouillaient imperfect indicative plural
- magouillai first-person historic indicative
- magouillas historic indicative past
- magouilla historic indicative past
- magouillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce magouiller?
- /ma.ɡu.je/
- \ma.ɡu.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 magouiller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is magouiller in French?
magouiller appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).