écriteau
French, noun/e.kʁi.to/
écriteau is spelled É-C-R-I-T-E-A-U (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,802nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écriteau is a French masculine noun meaning “sign, notice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Inscription en grosses lettres, qu’on met sur un papier, sur du bois, sur de la toile, pour appeler…”.
What does écriteau mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesign, notice
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Inscription en grosses lettres, qu’on met sur un papier, sur du bois, sur de la toile, pour appeler l’attention du public.
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 écriteau
- écriteaux plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce écriteau?
- /e.kʁi.to/
- \e.kʁi.to\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is écriteau in French?
écriteau appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).