accablement
French, noun/a.ka.blə.mɑ̃/
accablement is spelled A-C-C-A-B-L-E-M-E-N-T (11 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 112,013th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Accablement is a French masculine noun meaning “consternation, overwhelming despondency” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État d’une personne accablée par la maladie, par l’affliction, ou par des charges morales pesantes”.
What does accablement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineconsternation, overwhelming despondency
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État d’une personne accablée par la maladie, par l’affliction, ou par des charges morales pesantes.
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 accablement
- accablements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce accablement?
- /a.ka.blə.mɑ̃/
- \a.ka.blə.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to accablement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is accablement in French?
accablement appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).