bricoler
French, verb/bʁi.kɔ.le/
bricoler is a French verb meaning “to do DIY” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jouer de bricole, soit à la paume, soit au billard”.
What does bricoler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to do DIY
- 2
to tinker (to fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Jouer de bricole, soit à la paume, soit au billard. 2. Biaiser, tergiverser. 3. Changer de piste, en parlant d'un chien. 4. Passer adroitement entre les arbres et les buissons, en parlant d'un cheval.
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 bricoler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bricolant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bricolé participle past
- bricole first-person indicative present
- bricoles indicative present second-person
- bricolons first-person indicative plural
- bricolez indicative plural present
- bricolent indicative plural present
- bricolais first-person imperfect indicative
- bricolait imperfect indicative singular
- bricolions first-person imperfect indicative
- bricoliez imperfect indicative plural
- bricolaient imperfect indicative plural
- bricolai first-person historic indicative
- bricolas historic indicative past
- bricola historic indicative past
- bricolâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bricoler?
- /bʁi.kɔ.le/
- \bʁi.kɔ.le\
- [bʁikɔle]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bricoler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bricoler in French?
bricoler appears 1.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).