roucouler
French, verb/ʁu.ku.le/
roucouler is spelled R-O-U-C-O-U-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 101,144th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Roucouler is a French verb meaning “to coo (make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire entendre, en parlant des pigeons et des tourterelles, un murmure tendre, doux et monotone”.
What does roucouler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to coo (make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire entendre, en parlant des pigeons et des tourterelles, un murmure tendre, doux et monotone. 2. Tenir des propos tendres et langoureux. 3. Chanter ou parler tendrement, doucement et de façon monotone.
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 roucouler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- roucoulant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- roucoulé participle past
- roucoule first-person indicative present
- roucoules indicative present second-person
- roucoulons first-person indicative plural
- roucoulez indicative plural present
- roucoulent indicative plural present
- roucoulais first-person imperfect indicative
- roucoulait imperfect indicative singular
- roucoulions first-person imperfect indicative
- roucouliez imperfect indicative plural
- roucoulaient imperfect indicative plural
- roucoulai first-person historic indicative
- roucoulas historic indicative past
- roucoula historic indicative past
- roucoulâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce roucouler?
- /ʁu.ku.le/
- \ʁu.ku.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to roucouler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is roucouler in French?
roucouler appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).