ébarber
French, verb/e.baʁ.be/
ébarber is spelled É-B-A-R-B-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written French, the 285,390th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ébarber is a French verb meaning “to trim; to shave (remove excess)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Raser, supprimer la barbe”.
What does ébarber mean in English?
verb
- 1
to trim; to shave (remove excess)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Raser, supprimer la barbe. 2. Débarrasser une chose des parties excédantes et superflues. 3. Dans l’art de la gravure en taille-douce, débarrasser la taille de ce qui reste sur le bord, avec un outil, afin que le trait paraisse net.
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 ébarber
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ébarbant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ébarbé participle past
- ébarbe first-person indicative present
- ébarbes indicative present second-person
- ébarbons first-person indicative plural
- ébarbez indicative plural present
- ébarbent indicative plural present
- ébarbais first-person imperfect indicative
- ébarbait imperfect indicative singular
- ébarbions first-person imperfect indicative
- ébarbiez imperfect indicative plural
- ébarbaient imperfect indicative plural
- ébarbai first-person historic indicative
- ébarbas historic indicative past
- ébarba historic indicative past
- ébarbâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ébarber?
- /e.baʁ.be/
- \e.baʁ.be\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ébarber in French?
ébarber appears about once in every 83 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).