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email

French, noun

email is spelled E-M-A-I-L (5 letters) and appears 5.0 times per million words in written French, the 11,195th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Email is a French masculine noun meaning “email” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, émail is a different word: “enamel”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de e-mail”.

What does email mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    informalmasculineemail

noun

as émail
  1. 1

    masculineenamel

  2. 2

    masculinevitreous enamel

  3. 3

    masculineglaze (coating on pottery)

  4. 4

    masculinetincture (heraldry)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Matière fondante, composée de différents minéraux, laquelle, vitrifiée et plus ou moins opaque, peut recevoir différentes couleurs et être appliquée à l’aide du feu sur certains ouvrages d’or, d’argent, de cuivre, etc., pour les orner. 2. Ouvrage fait de cette matière. En ce sens, on l’emploie surtout au pluriel. 3. L’enduit vitreux dont on recouvre la porcelaine ou la faïence, et qui est souvent orné de diverses couleurs. 4. Superficie ordinairement blanche et luisante qui couvre la partie osseuse des dents.

noun: 1. Variante orthographique de e-mail.

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 email

  • emails plural
  • e-mail alternative
  • E-mail alternative
  • émaux plural
  • émails plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to email

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is email in French?

email appears 5.0 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).

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