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poiler

French, verb/pwa.le/

poiler is a French verb meaning “to laugh hard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rire, rigoler”.

What does poiler mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    informalto laugh hard

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Rire, rigoler.

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 poiler

  • se poiler infinitive reflexive
  • s'être + past participle infinitive multiword-construction reflexive
  • se poilant gerund participle present
  • ayant gerund multiword-construction participle
  • étant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • poilé participle past reflexive
  • me poile first-person indicative present
  • te poiles indicative present reflexive
  • se poile indicative present reflexive
  • nous poilons first-person indicative plural
  • vous poilez indicative plural present
  • se poilent indicative plural present
  • me poilais first-person imperfect indicative
  • te poilais imperfect indicative reflexive
  • se poilait imperfect indicative reflexive
  • nous poilions first-person imperfect indicative
  • vous poiliez imperfect indicative plural
  • se poilaient imperfect indicative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce poiler?

  • /pwa.le/
  • \pwa.le\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is poiler in French?

poiler appears about once in every 52 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).