embastillement
French, noun/ɑ̃.bas.tij.mɑ̃/
embastillement is spelled E-M-B-A-S-T-I-L-L-E-M-E-N-T (14 letters) and appears about once in every 89 million words in written French, the 294,907th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embastillement is a French masculine noun meaning “imprisonment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Le fait d’être en prison”.
What does embastillement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineimprisonment
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Le fait d’être en prison. 2. Le fait d’être dans un lieu dans lequel la liberté est limitée ou contrainte.
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 embastillement
- embastillements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce embastillement?
- /ɑ̃.bas.tij.mɑ̃/
- \ɑ̃.bas.tij.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is embastillement in French?
embastillement appears about once in every 89 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).