tourbillonner
French, verb/tuʁ.bi.jɔ.ne/
tourbillonner is spelled T-O-U-R-B-I-L-L-O-N-N-E-R (13 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 121,051st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tourbillonner is a French verb meaning “to swirl, whirl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aller en tournoyant rapidement”.
What does tourbillonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swirl, whirl
- 2
to twirl
- 3
to twirl
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aller en tournoyant rapidement.
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 tourbillonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tourbillonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tourbillonné participle past
- tourbillonne first-person indicative present
- tourbillonnes indicative present second-person
- tourbillonnons first-person indicative plural
- tourbillonnez indicative plural present
- tourbillonnent indicative plural present
- tourbillonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- tourbillonnait imperfect indicative singular
- tourbillonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- tourbillonniez imperfect indicative plural
- tourbillonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- tourbillonnai first-person historic indicative
- tourbillonnas historic indicative past
- tourbillonna historic indicative past
- tourbillonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tourbillonner?
- /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.ne/
- \tuʁ.bi.jɔ.ne\
- [tuʁ.bi.jɔ.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tourbillonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tourbillonner in French?
tourbillonner appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).