attirail
French, noun/a.ti.ʁaj/
attirail is spelled A-T-T-I-R-A-I-L (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 39,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Attirail is a French masculine noun meaning “paraphernalia, equipment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble de choses nécessaires pour tel ou tel usage”.
What does attirail mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineparaphernalia, equipment
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ensemble de choses nécessaires pour tel ou tel usage. 2. Étalage de choses dont on se fait accompagner. 3. Ensemble d’éléments abstraits inutiles. 4. Organes génitaux masculins, c’est-à-dire le pénis et les deux testicules.
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 attirail
- attirails plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce attirail?
- /a.ti.ʁaj/
- \a.ti.ʁaj\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to attirail
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is attirail in French?
attirail appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).