embout
French, noun/ɑ̃.bu/
embout is spelled E-M-B-O-U-T (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 54,486th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embout is a French masculine noun meaning “nozzle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Garniture dont on entoure, dans une canne, un parapluie, etc., l’extrémité qui touche le sol”.
What does embout mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenozzle
- 2
masculinetip (of a walking stick or an umbrella)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Garniture dont on entoure, dans une canne, un parapluie, etc., l’extrémité qui touche le sol. 2. Extrémité d’une chose. 3. Revêtement de plomb étamé que l’on met, dans un bâtiment, à une corniche ou aux parties extérieures en bois.
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 embout
- embouts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce embout?
- /ɑ̃.bu/
- \ɑ̃.bu\
- \ɑ̃bu\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to embout
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is embout in French?
embout appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).