spoiler
French, noun/spɔj.lœʁ/
spoiler is spelled S-P-O-I-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written French, the 13,339th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spoiler is a French masculine noun meaning “spoiler (something that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dispositif aérodynamique amovible visant à diminuer la portance d’un véhicule (voiture, avion)”.
What does spoiler mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinespoiler (something that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story)
verb
- 1
to spoil (a story, ending, etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dispositif aérodynamique amovible visant à diminuer la portance d’un véhicule (voiture, avion). 2. Divulgation prématurée d’un élément clé (d’une intrigue, d’un jeu, etc.) susceptible de gâcher, de spolier une partie du plaisir.
verb: 1. Dévoiler à l’avance ou divulguer prématurément un élément clé (d’une intrigue, d’une annonce, etc.) ; donner un spoiler.
verb: 1. Variante orthographique de spoiler.
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 spoiler
- spoilers plural
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- spoilant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- spoilé participle past
- spoile first-person indicative present
- spoiles indicative present second-person
- spoilons first-person indicative plural
- spoilez indicative plural present
- spoilent indicative plural present
- spoilais first-person imperfect indicative
- spoilait imperfect indicative singular
- spoilions first-person imperfect indicative
- spoiliez imperfect indicative plural
- spoilaient imperfect indicative plural
- spoilai first-person historic indicative
- spoilas historic indicative past
- spoila historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce spoiler?
- /spɔj.lœʁ/
- /spɔj.le/
- \spɔj.lœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to spoiler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is spoiler in French?
spoiler appears 3.9 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).