tortiller
French, verb/tɔʁ.ti.je/
tortiller is spelled T-O-R-T-I-L-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,146th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tortiller is a French verb meaning “to twist, twirl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tordre à plusieurs tours. Ne se dit qu’en parlant des choses souples, comme le papier, la filasse, le ruban…”.
What does tortiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to twist, twirl
- 2
to wriggle, squirm, writhe
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tordre à plusieurs tours. Ne se dit qu’en parlant des choses souples, comme le papier, la filasse, le ruban, etc. 2. Chercher des détours, des subterfuges. 3. Marcher avec un mouvement, un balancement trop marqué des hanches. 4. Se tordre ou se replier sur soi-même.
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 tortiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tortillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tortillé participle past
- tortille first-person indicative present
- tortilles indicative present second-person
- tortillons first-person indicative plural
- tortillez indicative plural present
- tortillent indicative plural present
- tortillais first-person imperfect indicative
- tortillait imperfect indicative singular
- tortillions first-person imperfect indicative
- tortilliez imperfect indicative plural
- tortillaient imperfect indicative plural
- tortillai first-person historic indicative
- tortillas historic indicative past
- tortilla historic indicative past
- tortillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tortiller?
- /tɔʁ.ti.je/
- \tɔʁ.ti.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tortiller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tortiller in French?
tortiller appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).