manipuler
French, verb/ma.ni.py.le/
manipuler is spelled M-A-N-I-P-U-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears 6.9 times per million words in written French, the 8,831st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Manipuler is a French verb meaning “to manipulate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manier avec soin”.
What does manipuler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to manipulate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Manier avec soin. 2. Se livrer à des expériences scientifiques, expérimenter. 3. Manœuvrer, manier, tripoter. 4. Utiliser, employer avec aisance.
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 manipuler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- manipulant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- manipulé participle past
- manipule first-person indicative present
- manipules indicative present second-person
- manipulons first-person indicative plural
- manipulez indicative plural present
- manipulent indicative plural present
- manipulais first-person imperfect indicative
- manipulait imperfect indicative singular
- manipulions first-person imperfect indicative
- manipuliez imperfect indicative plural
- manipulaient imperfect indicative plural
- manipulai first-person historic indicative
- manipulas historic indicative past
- manipula historic indicative past
- manipulâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce manipuler?
- /ma.ni.py.le/
- \ma.ni.py.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to manipuler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is manipuler in French?
manipuler appears 6.9 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).