avortement
French, noun/a.vɔʁ.tə.mɑ̃/
avortement is spelled A-V-O-R-T-E-M-E-N-T (10 letters) and appears 8.3 times per million words in written French, the 7,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avortement is a French masculine noun meaning “abortion, termination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Expulsion d'un fœtus, d'un embryon pendant la période des 180 jours qui suivent sa conception”.
What does avortement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineabortion, termination
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Expulsion d'un fœtus, d'un embryon pendant la période des 180 jours qui suivent sa conception. 2. Expulsion d’un fœtus non viable. 3. Échec d’un développement quelconque sans rapport avec la procréation.
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 avortement
- avortements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avortement?
- /a.vɔʁ.tə.mɑ̃/
- \a.vɔʁ.tə.mɑ̃\
- [a.voʁ.tə.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 avortement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is avortement in French?
avortement appears 8.3 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).