écartèlement
French, noun/e.kaʁ.tɛl.mɑ̃/
écartèlement is spelled É-C-A-R-T-È-L-E-M-E-N-T (12 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 102,288th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écartèlement is a French masculine noun meaning “quartering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’écarteler, supplice de l'Ancien Régime, appliqué aux régicides, et qui consistait à faire écarteler…”.
What does écartèlement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinequartering
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’écarteler, supplice de l'Ancien Régime, appliqué aux régicides, et qui consistait à faire écarteler le supplicié par des chevaux tirant sur chacun des quatre membres. 2. Dislocation, éclatement.
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 écartèlement
- écartèlements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce écartèlement?
- /e.kaʁ.tɛl.mɑ̃/
- \e.kaʁ.tɛl.mɑ̃\
- [ekaʁtɛlmɑ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to écartèlement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is écartèlement in French?
écartèlement appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).