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émasculation

French, noun/e.mas.ky.la.sjɔ̃/

émasculation is spelled É-M-A-S-C-U-L-A-T-I-O-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 135,114th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émasculation is a French feminine noun meaning “emasculation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Amputation des testicules (orchidectomie) et du pénis (pénectomie)”.

What does émasculation mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineemasculation

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Amputation des testicules (orchidectomie) et du pénis (pénectomie).

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 émasculation

  • émasculations plural

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

How do you pronounce émasculation?

  • /e.mas.ky.la.sjɔ̃/
  • \e.mas.ky.la.sjɔ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to émasculation

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

How common is émasculation in French?

émasculation 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).

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