bégaiement
French, noun/be.ɡɛ.mɑ̃/
bégaiement is spelled B-É-G-A-I-E-M-E-N-T (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 52,567th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bégaiement is a French masculine noun meaning “stammering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de bégayer, pathologiquement ou non”.
What does bégaiement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestammering
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de bégayer, pathologiquement ou non. 2. Trouble de la parole handicapant dans la communication conduisant à des répétitions de syllabes et des blocages nerveux dans l’articulation des mots.
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 bégaiement
- bégaiements plural
- bégayement
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bégaiement?
- /be.ɡɛ.mɑ̃/
- /be.ɡe.mɑ̃/
- \be.ɡɛ.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 bégaiement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bégaiement in French?
bégaiement appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).