échauffourée
French, noun/e.ʃo.fu.ʁe/
échauffourée is spelled É-C-H-A-U-F-F-O-U-R-É-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 69,707th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Échauffourée is a French feminine noun meaning “scuffle, brawl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Entreprise mal concertée, malheureuse contre des ennemis privés ou publics”.
What does échauffourée mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininescuffle, brawl
- 2
feminineskirmish, affray
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Entreprise mal concertée, malheureuse contre des ennemis privés ou publics. 2. Petit combat.
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 échauffourée
- échauffourées plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce échauffourée?
- /e.ʃo.fu.ʁe/
- \e.ʃo.fu.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to échauffourée
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is échauffourée in French?
échauffourée appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).