vriller
French, verb/vʁi.je/
vriller is spelled V-R-I-L-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 104,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vriller is a French verb meaning “to spiral; to spin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tourner sur soi-même”.
What does vriller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to spiral; to spin
- 2
to twist; to roll up; to wrap up
Il vrille un cordon de soie.
- 3
to gimlet; to bore; to pierce
- 4
to torment; to penetrate painfully
un son qui me vrille le tympan
- 5
to stare piercingly
- 6
colloquialto break down
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tourner sur soi-même. 2. Vriller une passe, faire une passe en faisant tourner le ballon sur lui-même. 3. Enrouler sur soi-même. 4. Percer avec une vrille.
noun: 1. Fabricant de vrilles et autres menus outils de fer ou d’acier.
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 vriller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- vrillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- vrillé participle past
- vrille first-person indicative present
- vrilles indicative present second-person
- vrillons first-person indicative plural
- vrillez indicative plural present
- vrillent indicative plural present
- vrillais first-person imperfect indicative
- vrillait imperfect indicative singular
- vrillions first-person imperfect indicative
- vrilliez imperfect indicative plural
- vrillaient imperfect indicative plural
- vrillai first-person historic indicative
- vrillas historic indicative past
- vrilla historic indicative past
- vrillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vriller?
- /vʁi.je/
- \vʁi.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 vriller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vriller in French?
vriller appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).