resquiller
French, verb/ʁɛs.ki.je/
resquiller is spelled R-E-S-Q-U-I-L-L-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written French, the 205,184th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Resquiller is a French verb meaning “to queue-jump” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire une petite tricherie, en particulier pour ne pas payer ce qui aurait dû l’être”.
What does resquiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to queue-jump
- 2
to ride (public transport) without a ticket
- 3
to gatecrash
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire une petite tricherie, en particulier pour ne pas payer ce qui aurait dû l’être.
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 resquiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- resquillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- resquillé participle past
- resquille first-person indicative present
- resquilles indicative present second-person
- resquillons first-person indicative plural
- resquillez indicative plural present
- resquillent indicative plural present
- resquillais first-person imperfect indicative
- resquillait imperfect indicative singular
- resquillions first-person imperfect indicative
- resquilliez imperfect indicative plural
- resquillaient imperfect indicative plural
- resquillai first-person historic indicative
- resquillas historic indicative past
- resquilla historic indicative past
- resquillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce resquiller?
- /ʁɛs.ki.je/
- \ʁɛs.ki.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 resquiller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is resquiller in French?
resquiller appears about once in every 42 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).