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coutil

French, noun/ku.ti/

coutil is spelled C-O-U-T-I-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 115,758th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coutil is a French masculine noun meaning “drill” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Toile faite de fil de chanvre ou de lin, mélangée quelquefois de coton, lissée et serrée”.

What does coutil mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinedrill

  2. 2

    masculinegarment or other item made of this fabric

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Toile faite de fil de chanvre ou de lin, mélangée quelquefois de coton, lissée et serrée. 2. Enveloppe en tissu revêtant les matelas.

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 coutil

  • coutils plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce coutil?

  • /ku.ti/
  • \ku.ti\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is coutil in French?

coutil appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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