écrasement
French, noun/e.kʁaz.mɑ̃/
écrasement is spelled É-C-R-A-S-E-M-E-N-T (10 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written French, the 23,795th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écrasement is a French masculine noun meaning “crushing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’écraser ou le fait d’être écrasé”.
What does écrasement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrushing
- 2
masculinecrash (of an airplane)
- 3
masculineoverwrite mode
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’écraser ou le fait d’être écrasé. 2. Action de soumettre un adversaire. 3. Accident d’un avion qui s’écrase au sol. 4. Perte complète ou presque de l’élan, de l’entrain.
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 écrasement
- écrasements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce écrasement?
- /e.kʁaz.mɑ̃/
- \e.kʁaz.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to écrasement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is écrasement in French?
écrasement appears 1.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).