embouché
French, adjective
embouché is spelled E-M-B-O-U-C-H-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 164,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embouché is a French adjective meaning “mouthed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of emboucher. Without its accent, embouche is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does embouché mean in English?
adjective
- 1
mouthed
verb
- 1
past participle of emboucher
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’engraisser les bestiaux. 2. Engraissement des animaux sur prairies, notamment des bovins. 3. Engraissement à l’étable (embouche à l’auge). 4. Prairie suffisamment fertile pour permettre l’engraissement d’animaux sans apport d'aliments complémentaires. (On dit aussi pré d’embouche.)
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 embouché
- embouchée feminine
- embouchés masculine plural
- embouchées feminine plural
- embouches plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is embouché in French?
embouché appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).