siffloter
French, verb/si.flɔ.te/
siffloter is spelled S-I-F-F-L-O-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 150,781st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Siffloter is a French verb meaning “to whistle (carelessly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Siffler négligemment, de façon continue”.
What does siffloter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to whistle (carelessly)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Siffler négligemment, de façon continue.
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 siffloter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- sifflotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- siffloté participle past
- sifflote first-person indicative present
- sifflotes indicative present second-person
- sifflotons first-person indicative plural
- sifflotez indicative plural present
- sifflotent indicative plural present
- sifflotais first-person imperfect indicative
- sifflotait imperfect indicative singular
- sifflotions first-person imperfect indicative
- sifflotiez imperfect indicative plural
- sifflotaient imperfect indicative plural
- sifflotai first-person historic indicative
- sifflotas historic indicative past
- sifflota historic indicative past
- sifflotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce siffloter?
- /si.flɔ.te/
- \si.flɔ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is siffloter in French?
siffloter appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).