ébahissement
French, noun/e.ba.is.mɑ̃/
ébahissement is spelled É-B-A-H-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T (12 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 175,987th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ébahissement is a French masculine noun meaning “astonishment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État de celui qui est ébahi”.
What does ébahissement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineastonishment
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État de celui qui est ébahi.
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 ébahissement
- ébahissements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ébahissement?
- /e.ba.is.mɑ̃/
- \e.ba.is.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ébahissement in French?
ébahissement appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).