emboîture
French, noun/ɑ̃.bwa.tyʁ/
emboîture is spelled E-M-B-O-Î-T-U-R-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 69 million words in written French, the 261,491st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emboîture is a French feminine noun meaning “socket (or any similar device in which something fits inside another)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Insertion d’une chose dans une autre”.
What does emboîture mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesocket (or any similar device in which something fits inside another)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Insertion d’une chose dans une autre. 2. Endroit de cette insertion. 3. Ce dans quoi une chose s’emboîte. 4. Poutre, de travers en haut ou en bas, dans laquelle les autres poutres d’une porte, d'une fenêtre, sont emboîtées.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de emboîture.
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 emboîture
- emboîtures plural
- emboiture
- emboitures plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emboîture?
- /ɑ̃.bwa.tyʁ/
- \ɑ̃.bwa.tyʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is emboîture in French?
emboîture appears about once in every 69 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).