dessèchement
French, noun/de.sɛʃ.mɑ̃/
dessèchement is spelled D-E-S-S-È-C-H-E-M-E-N-T (12 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 60,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dessèchement is a French masculine noun meaning “drying (out)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de dessécher ou état d’une chose desséchée”.
What does dessèchement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedrying (out)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de dessécher ou état d’une chose desséchée.
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 dessèchement
- dessèchements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dessèchement?
- /de.sɛʃ.mɑ̃/
- \de.sɛʃ.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dessèchement in French?
dessèchement 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).