alourdissement
French, noun/a.luʁ.dis.mɑ̃/
alourdissement is spelled A-L-O-U-R-D-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T (14 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 83,718th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alourdissement is a French masculine noun meaning “weighing down (act of weighing down)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État de ce qui est alourdi”.
What does alourdissement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineweighing down (act of weighing down)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État de ce qui est alourdi.
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 alourdissement
- alourdissements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alourdissement?
- /a.luʁ.dis.mɑ̃/
- \a.luʁ.dis.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is alourdissement in French?
alourdissement appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).