pelotonner
French, verb\pə.lɔ.tɔ.ne\
pelotonner is spelled P-E-L-O-T-O-N-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 173,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pelotonner is a French verb meaning “to wind up into a ball” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre en peloton du fil, de la soie, de la laine, etc”.
What does pelotonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wind up into a ball
- 2
to curl up into a ball
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre en peloton du fil, de la soie, de la laine, etc. 2. Former un groupe serré. 3. Ramasser son corps en forme de boule, en parlant d’une personne ou d’un animal.
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 pelotonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pelotonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pelotonné participle past
- pelotonne first-person indicative present
- pelotonnes indicative present second-person
- pelotonnons first-person indicative plural
- pelotonnez indicative plural present
- pelotonnent indicative plural present
- pelotonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- pelotonnait imperfect indicative singular
- pelotonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- pelotonniez imperfect indicative plural
- pelotonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- pelotonnai first-person historic indicative
- pelotonnas historic indicative past
- pelotonna historic indicative past
- pelotonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pelotonner?
- \pə.lɔ.tɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pelotonner in French?
pelotonner appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).