rougir
French, verb/ʁu.ʒiʁ/
rougir is spelled R-O-U-G-I-R (6 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written French, the 19,241st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rougir is a French verb meaning “to redden” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre rouge ; peindre ou teindre en rouge”.
What does rougir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to redden
- 2
to blush
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre rouge ; peindre ou teindre en rouge. 2. Devenir rouge. 3. Devenir rouge sous l'effet d'une chaleur extrême. 4. Avoir la peau du visage qui devient rouge sous l’effet de l'émotion. → voir piquer un soleil
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 rougir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rougissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rougi participle past
- rougis first-person indicative present
- rougit indicative present singular
- rougissons first-person indicative plural
- rougissez indicative plural present
- rougissent indicative plural present
- rougissais first-person imperfect indicative
- rougissait imperfect indicative singular
- rougissions first-person imperfect indicative
- rougissiez imperfect indicative plural
- rougissaient imperfect indicative plural
- rougîmes first-person historic indicative
- rougîtes historic indicative past
- rougirent historic indicative past
- rougirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rougir?
- /ʁu.ʒiʁ/
- \ʁu.ʒiʁ\
- [ʁu.ʒiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rougir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rougir in French?
rougir appears 2.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).