refluer
French, verb/ʁə.fly.e/
refluer is spelled R-E-F-L-U-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 76,422nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Refluer is a French verb meaning “to flow back, to ebb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire le mouvement de reflux, en parlant des liquides qui retournent vers le lieu d’où ils ont coulé, ou qui…”.
What does refluer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flow back, to ebb
- 2
to go back, rush back
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire le mouvement de reflux, en parlant des liquides qui retournent vers le lieu d’où ils ont coulé, ou qui, pressés dans un endroit, se portent dans un autre. 2. Prendre un chemin de retour.
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 refluer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- refluant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- reflué participle past
- reflue first-person indicative present
- reflues indicative present second-person
- refluons first-person indicative plural
- refluez indicative plural present
- refluent indicative plural present
- refluais first-person imperfect indicative
- refluait imperfect indicative singular
- refluions first-person imperfect indicative
- refluiez imperfect indicative plural
- refluaient imperfect indicative plural
- refluai first-person historic indicative
- refluas historic indicative past
- reflua historic indicative past
- refluâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce refluer?
- /ʁə.fly.e/
- \ʁə.fly.e\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to refluer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is refluer in French?
refluer appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).