onduler
French, verb/ɔ̃.dy.le/
onduler is spelled O-N-D-U-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 86,540th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Onduler is a French verb meaning “to undulate, to ripple, to wave” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Avoir un mouvement d’ondulation lent, mais sensible”.
What does onduler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to undulate, to ripple, to wave
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Avoir un mouvement d’ondulation lent, mais sensible. 2. Avoir une forme faite de courbes.
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 onduler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ondulant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ondulé participle past
- ondule first-person indicative present
- ondules indicative present second-person
- ondulons first-person indicative plural
- ondulez indicative plural present
- ondulent indicative plural present
- ondulais first-person imperfect indicative
- ondulait imperfect indicative singular
- ondulions first-person imperfect indicative
- onduliez imperfect indicative plural
- ondulaient imperfect indicative plural
- ondulai first-person historic indicative
- ondulas historic indicative past
- ondula historic indicative past
- ondulâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce onduler?
- /ɔ̃.dy.le/
- \ɔ̃.dy.le\
- [ɔ̃.d̪y.l̪e]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to onduler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is onduler in French?
onduler 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).