papouiller
French, verb/pa.pu.je/
papouiller is spelled P-A-P-O-U-I-L-L-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written French, the 198,467th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Papouiller is a French verb meaning “to pet, snuggle, caress” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couvrir de bisous”.
What does papouiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pet, snuggle, caress
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Couvrir de bisous.
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 papouiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- papouillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- papouillé participle past
- papouille first-person indicative present
- papouilles indicative present second-person
- papouillons first-person indicative plural
- papouillez indicative plural present
- papouillent indicative plural present
- papouillais first-person imperfect indicative
- papouillait imperfect indicative singular
- papouillions first-person imperfect indicative
- papouilliez imperfect indicative plural
- papouillaient imperfect indicative plural
- papouillai first-person historic indicative
- papouillas historic indicative past
- papouilla historic indicative past
- papouillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce papouiller?
- /pa.pu.je/
- \pa.pu.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is papouiller in French?
papouiller appears about once in every 39 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).