sourciller
French, verb/suʁ.si.je/
sourciller is spelled S-O-U-R-C-I-L-L-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,297th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sourciller is a French verb meaning “to frown” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Remuer les sourcils”.
What does sourciller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to frown
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Remuer les sourcils. 2. Manifester ou ressentir du mécontentement, de l’impatience, de l’étonnement etc. 3. Jaillir du sol en petites sources.
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 sourciller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- sourcillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- sourcillé participle past
- sourcille first-person indicative present
- sourcilles indicative present second-person
- sourcillons first-person indicative plural
- sourcillez indicative plural present
- sourcillent indicative plural present
- sourcillais first-person imperfect indicative
- sourcillait imperfect indicative singular
- sourcillions first-person imperfect indicative
- sourcilliez imperfect indicative plural
- sourcillaient imperfect indicative plural
- sourcillai first-person historic indicative
- sourcillas historic indicative past
- sourcilla historic indicative past
- sourcillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sourciller?
- /suʁ.si.je/
- \suʁ.si.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sourciller in French?
sourciller appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).