tripatouiller
French, verb/tʁi.pa.tu.je/
tripatouiller is spelled T-R-I-P-A-T-O-U-I-L-L-E-R (13 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 139,724th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tripatouiller is a French verb meaning “to grope” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manier quelqu'un ou quelque chose avec insistance, sans délicatesse, sans précaution”.
What does tripatouiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to grope
Il m'a tellement tripatouillé que j'ai mal de partout.
- 2
to fiddle with
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Manier quelqu'un ou quelque chose avec insistance, sans délicatesse, sans précaution. 2. Modifier, transformer, en particulier une œuvre artistique avec un résultat peu probant ou sans l'accord de l'auteur. 3. Manigancer, altérer, truquer en particulier des comptes.
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 tripatouiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tripatouillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tripatouillé participle past
- tripatouille first-person indicative present
- tripatouilles indicative present second-person
- tripatouillons first-person indicative plural
- tripatouillez indicative plural present
- tripatouillent indicative plural present
- tripatouillais first-person imperfect indicative
- tripatouillait imperfect indicative singular
- tripatouillions first-person imperfect indicative
- tripatouilliez imperfect indicative plural
- tripatouillaient imperfect indicative plural
- tripatouillai first-person historic indicative
- tripatouillas historic indicative past
- tripatouilla historic indicative past
- tripatouillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tripatouiller?
- /tʁi.pa.tu.je/
- \tʁi.pa.tu.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tripatouiller in French?
tripatouiller appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).