écoutille
French, noun/e.ku.tij/
écoutille is spelled É-C-O-U-T-I-L-L-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 77,345th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écoutille is a French feminine noun meaning “hatch, hatchway” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sorte de trappe, ouverture carrée ou rectangulaire pratiquée dans le pont d’un navire pour descendre dans…”.
What does écoutille mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehatch, hatchway
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sorte de trappe, ouverture carrée ou rectangulaire pratiquée dans le pont d’un navire pour descendre dans l’intérieur. 2. Oreille.
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 écoutille
- écoutilles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce écoutille?
- /e.ku.tij/
- \e.ku.tij\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to écoutille
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is écoutille in French?
écoutille appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).