apaisant
French, adjective/a.pɛ.zɑ̃/
apaisant is spelled A-P-A-I-S-A-N-T (8 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,948th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apaisant is a French adjective meaning “soothing, mollifying” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of apaiser. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui apporte l’apaisement, qui rassure, qui calme”.
What does apaisant mean in English?
adjective
- 1
soothing, mollifying
verb
- 1
present participle of apaiser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui apporte l’apaisement, qui rassure, qui calme.
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 apaisant
- apaisante feminine
- apaisants masculine plural
- apaisantes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apaisant?
- /a.pɛ.zɑ̃/
- /a.pe.zɑ̃/
- \a.pɛ.zɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to apaisant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apaisant in French?
apaisant 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).