requinquer
French, verb/ʁə.kɛ̃.ke/
requinquer is spelled R-E-Q-U-I-N-Q-U-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 82,784th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Requinquer is a French verb meaning “to cheer up, to perk up, to give a pick-up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Réparer le désordre de sa toilette”.
What does requinquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cheer up, to perk up, to give a pick-up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Réparer le désordre de sa toilette. 2. Remonter sa garde-robe. 3. Redonner une belle apparence, une bonne allure, à quelque chose. 4. Redonner ou reprendre des forces, (se) remettre d’aplomb, soit au physique, soit au moral, ragaillardir, regonfler, remonter, retaper.
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 requinquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- requinquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- requinqué participle past
- requinque first-person indicative present
- requinques indicative present second-person
- requinquons first-person indicative plural
- requinquez indicative plural present
- requinquent indicative plural present
- requinquais first-person imperfect indicative
- requinquait imperfect indicative singular
- requinquions first-person imperfect indicative
- requinquiez imperfect indicative plural
- requinquaient imperfect indicative plural
- requinquai first-person historic indicative
- requinquas historic indicative past
- requinqua historic indicative past
- requinquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce requinquer?
- /ʁə.kɛ̃.ke/
- \ʁə.kɛ̃.ke\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is requinquer in French?
requinquer appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).