trifouiller
French, verb/tʁi.fu.je/
trifouiller is a French verb meaning “to tamper (with), tinker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chercher quelque chose sans méthode ni précaution, farfouiller”.
What does trifouiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto tamper (with), tinker
- 2
colloquialto rummage, rummage around (+dans = in)
- 3
colloquialto dabble
il trifouille dans l'art.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Chercher quelque chose sans méthode ni précaution, farfouiller. 2. Remuer, émouvoir, troubler.
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 trifouiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- trifouillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- trifouillé participle past
- trifouille first-person indicative present
- trifouilles indicative present second-person
- trifouillons first-person indicative plural
- trifouillez indicative plural present
- trifouillent indicative plural present
- trifouillais first-person imperfect indicative
- trifouillait imperfect indicative singular
- trifouillions first-person imperfect indicative
- trifouilliez imperfect indicative plural
- trifouillaient imperfect indicative plural
- trifouillai first-person historic indicative
- trifouillas historic indicative past
- trifouilla historic indicative past
- trifouillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trifouiller?
- /tʁi.fu.je/
- \tʁi.fu.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is trifouiller in French?
trifouiller appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).