mollir
French, verb/mɔ.liʁ/
mollir is spelled M-O-L-L-I-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 147,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mollir is a French verb meaning “to mollify, become soft” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Devenir mou”.
What does mollir mean in English?
verb
- 1
rareto mollify, become soft
- 2
rareto ease off or die down; to relent, abate, give way
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Devenir mou. 2. Manquer de force ; faiblir ; fléchir. 3. Céder trop aisément dans une occasion où il faudrait avoir de la fermeté. 4. Rendre plus mou ; détendre.
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 mollir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mollissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- molli participle past
- mollis first-person indicative present
- mollit indicative present singular
- mollissons first-person indicative plural
- mollissez indicative plural present
- mollissent indicative plural present
- mollissais first-person imperfect indicative
- mollissait imperfect indicative singular
- mollissions first-person imperfect indicative
- mollissiez imperfect indicative plural
- mollissaient imperfect indicative plural
- mollîmes first-person historic indicative
- mollîtes historic indicative past
- mollirent historic indicative past
- mollirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mollir?
- /mɔ.liʁ/
- \mɔ.liʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mollir in French?
mollir appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).