ripailler
French, verb/ʁi.pa.je/
ripailler is spelled R-I-P-A-I-L-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 85 million words in written French, the 288,492nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ripailler is a French verb meaning “to feast” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bien manger, faire ripaille ou faire bonne chère”.
What does ripailler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to feast
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Bien manger, faire ripaille ou faire bonne chère.
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 ripailler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ripaillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ripaillé participle past
- ripaille first-person indicative present
- ripailles indicative present second-person
- ripaillons first-person indicative plural
- ripaillez indicative plural present
- ripaillent indicative plural present
- ripaillais first-person imperfect indicative
- ripaillait imperfect indicative singular
- ripaillions first-person imperfect indicative
- ripailliez imperfect indicative plural
- ripaillaient imperfect indicative plural
- ripaillai first-person historic indicative
- ripaillas historic indicative past
- ripailla historic indicative past
- ripaillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ripailler?
- /ʁi.pa.je/
- \ʁi.pɑ.je\
- \ʁi.pa.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ripailler in French?
ripailler appears about once in every 85 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).