renifler
French, verb/ʁə.ni.fle/
renifler is spelled R-E-N-I-F-L-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 43,844th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Renifler is a French verb meaning “to sniff” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aspirer fortement par le nez”.
What does renifler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sniff
- 2
to smell (sense with the nose)
- 3
to turn up one's nose (at)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aspirer fortement par le nez. 2. Marquer de la répugnance pour quelque chose. 3. Aspirer sa morve ou ses larmes par le nez. 4. Sentir, dans le sens d’avoir pour odeur.
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 renifler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- reniflant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- reniflé participle past
- renifle first-person indicative present
- renifles indicative present second-person
- reniflons first-person indicative plural
- reniflez indicative plural present
- reniflent indicative plural present
- reniflais first-person imperfect indicative
- reniflait imperfect indicative singular
- reniflions first-person imperfect indicative
- renifliez imperfect indicative plural
- reniflaient imperfect indicative plural
- reniflai first-person historic indicative
- reniflas historic indicative past
- renifla historic indicative past
- reniflâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce renifler?
- /ʁə.ni.fle/
- \ʁə.ni.fle\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to renifler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is renifler in French?
renifler appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).