postillonner
French, verb\pɔs.ti.jɔ.ne\
postillonner is spelled P-O-S-T-I-L-L-O-N-N-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written French, the 255,834th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Postillonner is a French verb meaning “to splutter (speak while spitting)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Émettre des postillons quand on parle”.
What does postillonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to splutter (speak while spitting)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Émettre des postillons quand on parle. 2. Parler maladroitement. 3. Être toujours à courir la poste, employer incessamment les postillons.
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 postillonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- postillonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- postillonné participle past
- postillonne first-person indicative present
- postillonnes indicative present second-person
- postillonnons first-person indicative plural
- postillonnez indicative plural present
- postillonnent indicative plural present
- postillonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- postillonnait imperfect indicative singular
- postillonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- postillonniez imperfect indicative plural
- postillonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- postillonnai first-person historic indicative
- postillonnas historic indicative past
- postillonna historic indicative past
- postillonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce postillonner?
- \pɔs.ti.jɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to postillonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is postillonner in French?
postillonner appears about once in every 66 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).