railler
French, verb/ʁa.je/
railler is spelled R-A-I-L-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 53,838th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Railler is a French verb meaning “to mock, taunt, jeer at” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plaisanter quelqu’un ou quelque chose, lui parler ou en parler avec moquerie”.
What does railler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mock, taunt, jeer at
- 2
to jest
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Plaisanter quelqu’un ou quelque chose, lui parler ou en parler avec moquerie. 2. Badiner, ne pas parler sérieusement. 3. Se moquer.
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 railler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- raillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- raillé participle past
- raille first-person indicative present
- railles indicative present second-person
- raillons first-person indicative plural
- raillez indicative plural present
- raillent indicative plural present
- raillais first-person imperfect indicative
- raillait imperfect indicative singular
- raillions first-person imperfect indicative
- railliez imperfect indicative plural
- raillaient imperfect indicative plural
- raillai first-person historic indicative
- raillas historic indicative past
- railla historic indicative past
- raillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce railler?
- /ʁa.je/
- /ʁɑ.je/
- \ʁɑ.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 railler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is railler in French?
railler appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).