picoler
French, verb/pi.kɔ.le/
picoler is spelled P-I-C-O-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 37,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Picoler is a French verb meaning “to drink, tipple” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Boire des boissons alcooliques (transitif)”.
What does picoler mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto drink, tipple
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Boire des boissons alcooliques (transitif). 2. Consommer de l’alcool régulièrement et excessivement.
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 picoler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- picolant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- picolé participle past
- picole first-person indicative present
- picoles indicative present second-person
- picolons first-person indicative plural
- picolez indicative plural present
- picolent indicative plural present
- picolais first-person imperfect indicative
- picolait imperfect indicative singular
- picolions first-person imperfect indicative
- picoliez imperfect indicative plural
- picolaient imperfect indicative plural
- picolai first-person historic indicative
- picolas historic indicative past
- picola historic indicative past
- picolâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce picoler?
- /pi.kɔ.le/
- \pi.kɔ.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to picoler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is picoler in French?
picoler appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).