embouteiller
French, verb/ɑ̃.bu.tɛ.je/
embouteiller is spelled E-M-B-O-U-T-E-I-L-L-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 146,077th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embouteiller is a French verb meaning “to bottle, to bottle up, to put into bottles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre en bouteilles”.
What does embouteiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bottle, to bottle up, to put into bottles
- 2
to back up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre en bouteilles. 2. Dépasser la capacité d’absorption d’une voie de communication, empêchant la fluidité de la circulation. 3. Enfermer dans une impasse.
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 embouteiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- embouteillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- embouteillé participle past
- embouteille first-person indicative present
- embouteilles indicative present second-person
- embouteillons first-person indicative plural
- embouteillez indicative plural present
- embouteillent indicative plural present
- embouteillais first-person imperfect indicative
- embouteillait imperfect indicative singular
- embouteillions first-person imperfect indicative
- embouteilliez imperfect indicative plural
- embouteillaient imperfect indicative plural
- embouteillai first-person historic indicative
- embouteillas historic indicative past
- embouteilla historic indicative past
- embouteillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce embouteiller?
- /ɑ̃.bu.tɛ.je/
- /ɑ̃.bu.te.je/
- \ɑ̃.bu.te.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to embouteiller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is embouteiller in French?
embouteiller appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).