mouiller
French, verb/mu.je/
mouiller is spelled M-O-U-I-L-L-E-R (8 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written French, the 16,088th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mouiller is a French verb meaning “to make wet, get wet, dampen, moisten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre humide, imbiber un objet de liquide”.
What does mouiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make wet, get wet, dampen, moisten
- 2
to water (down)
- 3
to cast, drop (anchor)
- 4
to palatalize
- 5
to anchor, lie at anchor
- 6
slangto be so frightened as to piss oneself
- 7
slangto be wet
- 8
Quebecto rain
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre humide, imbiber un objet de liquide. 2. Ajouter du liquide (comme de l’eau, du lait ou du bouillon) à une sauce, ou à un plat qui a commencé à cuire sans eau. 3. Mettre à l’eau. 4. Compromettre, mettre en cause, impliquer (parfois contre sa volonté).
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 mouiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mouillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mouillé participle past
- mouille first-person indicative present
- mouilles indicative present second-person
- mouillons first-person indicative plural
- mouillez indicative plural present
- mouillent indicative plural present
- mouillais first-person imperfect indicative
- mouillait imperfect indicative singular
- mouillions first-person imperfect indicative
- mouilliez imperfect indicative plural
- mouillaient imperfect indicative plural
- mouillai first-person historic indicative
- mouillas historic indicative past
- mouilla historic indicative past
- mouillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mouiller?
- /mu.je/
- \mu.je\
- [mu.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 mouiller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mouiller in French?
mouiller appears 3.0 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).