écrivaillon
French, noun/e.kʁi.va.jɔ̃/
écrivaillon is spelled É-C-R-I-V-A-I-L-L-O-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written French, the 285,390th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écrivaillon is a French masculine noun meaning “scribbler, hack (mediocre writer)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Écrivain médiocre”.
What does écrivaillon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescribbler, hack (mediocre writer)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Écrivain médiocre.
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 écrivaillon
- écrivaillons plural
- écrivaillonne feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce écrivaillon?
- /e.kʁi.va.jɔ̃/
- \e.kʁi.vɑ.jɔ̃\
- [e.kʁi.va.jɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to écrivaillon
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is écrivaillon in French?
écrivaillon appears about once in every 83 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).