éclabousser
French, verb/e.kla.bu.se/
éclabousser is spelled É-C-L-A-B-O-U-S-S-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,044th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Éclabousser is a French verb meaning “to splatter, to splash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couvrir quelqu’un ou quelque chose d’une boue qu’on fait jaillir”.
What does éclabousser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to splatter, to splash
- 2
to taint, to embroil, to fill with scandal
- 3
to shatter, to burst
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Couvrir quelqu’un ou quelque chose d’une boue qu’on fait jaillir. 2. Envoyer de l’eau (ou un autre liquide) par giclées. 3. Faire gicler de l'eau (ou un autre liquide). 4. Couvrir d’un liquide.
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 éclabousser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- éclaboussant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- éclaboussé participle past
- éclabousse first-person indicative present
- éclabousses indicative present second-person
- éclaboussons first-person indicative plural
- éclaboussez indicative plural present
- éclaboussent indicative plural present
- éclaboussais first-person imperfect indicative
- éclaboussait imperfect indicative singular
- éclaboussions first-person imperfect indicative
- éclaboussiez imperfect indicative plural
- éclaboussaient imperfect indicative plural
- éclaboussai first-person historic indicative
- éclaboussas historic indicative past
- éclaboussa historic indicative past
- éclaboussâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce éclabousser?
- /e.kla.bu.se/
- \e.kla.bu.se\
- [e.kla.bu.se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to éclabousser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is éclabousser in French?
éclabousser 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).