pirouetter
French, verb/pi.ʁwɛ.te/
pirouetter is a French verb meaning “to pirouette” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire une ou plusieurs pirouettes”.
What does pirouetter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pirouette
- 2
to pivot
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire une ou plusieurs pirouettes. 2. Faire rapidement un mouvement circulaire, en parlant des choses comme des personnes. 3. Courir çà et là pour échapper à ses poursuivants. 4. Changer de sujet de conversation.
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 pirouetter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pirouettant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pirouetté participle past
- pirouette first-person indicative present
- pirouettes indicative present second-person
- pirouettons first-person indicative plural
- pirouettez indicative plural present
- pirouettent indicative plural present
- pirouettais first-person imperfect indicative
- pirouettait imperfect indicative singular
- pirouettions first-person imperfect indicative
- pirouettiez imperfect indicative plural
- pirouettaient imperfect indicative plural
- pirouettai first-person historic indicative
- pirouettas historic indicative past
- pirouetta historic indicative past
- pirouettâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pirouetter?
- /pi.ʁwɛ.te/
- /pi.ʁwe.te/
- \pi.ʁwe.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pirouetter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pirouetter in French?
pirouetter appears about once in every 78 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).