pendouiller
French, verb/pɑ̃.du.je/
pendouiller is spelled P-E-N-D-O-U-I-L-L-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written French, the 285,390th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pendouiller is a French verb meaning “to dangle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pendre mollement”.
What does pendouiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dangle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pendre mollement.
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 pendouiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pendouillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pendouillé participle past
- pendouille first-person indicative present
- pendouilles indicative present second-person
- pendouillons first-person indicative plural
- pendouillez indicative plural present
- pendouillent indicative plural present
- pendouillais first-person imperfect indicative
- pendouillait imperfect indicative singular
- pendouillions first-person imperfect indicative
- pendouilliez imperfect indicative plural
- pendouillaient imperfect indicative plural
- pendouillai first-person historic indicative
- pendouillas historic indicative past
- pendouilla historic indicative past
- pendouillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pendouiller?
- /pɑ̃.du.je/
- \pɑ̃.du.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 pendouiller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pendouiller in French?
pendouiller appears about once in every 83 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).