recoiffer
French, verb/ʁə.kwa.fe/
recoiffer is a French verb meaning “to fix one's hair (again, or after being disturbed)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Coiffer une seconde fois, réparer le désordre d’une coiffure”.
What does recoiffer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fix one's hair (again, or after being disturbed)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Coiffer une seconde fois, réparer le désordre d’une coiffure. 2. Remettre son chapeau.
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 recoiffer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- recoiffant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- recoiffé participle past
- recoiffe first-person indicative present
- recoiffes indicative present second-person
- recoiffons first-person indicative plural
- recoiffez indicative plural present
- recoiffent indicative plural present
- recoiffais first-person imperfect indicative
- recoiffait imperfect indicative singular
- recoiffions first-person imperfect indicative
- recoiffiez imperfect indicative plural
- recoiffaient imperfect indicative plural
- recoiffai first-person historic indicative
- recoiffas historic indicative past
- recoiffa historic indicative past
- recoiffâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce recoiffer?
- /ʁə.kwa.fe/
- \ʁə.kwa.fe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is recoiffer in French?
recoiffer appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).