barrissement
French, noun/ba.ʁis.mɑ̃/
barrissement is spelled B-A-R-R-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T (12 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written French, the 244,837th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Barrissement is a French masculine noun meaning “trumpet (the sound of an elephant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cri de l’éléphant ou du rhinocéros”.
What does barrissement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetrumpet (the sound of an elephant)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cri de l’éléphant ou du rhinocéros. 2. En parlant de l’éléphant ou du rhinocéros : action de pousser son cri (barrir).
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 barrissement
- barrissements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce barrissement?
- /ba.ʁis.mɑ̃/
- \ba.ʁis.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 barrissement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is barrissement in French?
barrissement appears about once in every 60 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).