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rhabiller

French, verb/ʁa.bi.je/

rhabiller is a French verb meaning “to get dressed again; to redress” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Habiller une seconde fois, remettre ses habits à quelqu’un”.

What does rhabiller mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to get dressed again; to redress

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Habiller une seconde fois, remettre ses habits à quelqu’un. 2. Recouvrir. 3. En parlant d’une équipe vaincue qui quitte un tournoi et qui va donc reprendre des habits civils, quitter la tenue sportive et, par extension, de façon figurée, perdre, être éliminé. 4. Fournir de nouveaux habits.

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 rhabiller

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • rhabillant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • rhabillé participle past
  • rhabille first-person indicative present
  • rhabilles indicative present second-person
  • rhabillons first-person indicative plural
  • rhabillez indicative plural present
  • rhabillent indicative plural present
  • rhabillais first-person imperfect indicative
  • rhabillait imperfect indicative singular
  • rhabillions first-person imperfect indicative
  • rhabilliez imperfect indicative plural
  • rhabillaient imperfect indicative plural
  • rhabillai first-person historic indicative
  • rhabillas historic indicative past
  • rhabilla historic indicative past
  • rhabillâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce rhabiller?

  • /ʁa.bi.je/
  • \ʁa.bi.je\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is rhabiller in French?

rhabiller 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).