émailler
French, verb/e.ma.je/
émailler is spelled É-M-A-I-L-L-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 135,114th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émailler is a French verb meaning “to enamel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Recouvrir ou garnir d’émail”.
What does émailler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to enamel
- 2
to mar, spoil, blemish
Une série d'incidents a émaillé l'événement.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Recouvrir ou garnir d’émail. 2. Embellir de couleurs vives. 3. Glisser par moments dans un discours, un propos. 4. Parsemer.
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 émailler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- émaillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- émaillé participle past
- émaille first-person indicative present
- émailles indicative present second-person
- émaillons first-person indicative plural
- émaillez indicative plural present
- émaillent indicative plural present
- émaillais first-person imperfect indicative
- émaillait imperfect indicative singular
- émaillions first-person imperfect indicative
- émailliez imperfect indicative plural
- émaillaient imperfect indicative plural
- émaillai first-person historic indicative
- émaillas historic indicative past
- émailla historic indicative past
- émaillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce émailler?
- /e.ma.je/
- \e.ma.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to émailler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is émailler in French?
émailler appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).