embranchement
French, noun/ɑ̃.bʁɑ̃ʃ.mɑ̃/
embranchement is spelled E-M-B-R-A-N-C-H-E-M-E-N-T (13 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 31,863rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embranchement is a French masculine noun meaning “junction, branch, fork” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Point de rencontre de deux ou de plusieurs chemins”.
What does embranchement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejunction, branch, fork
- 2
masculinephylum
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Point de rencontre de deux ou de plusieurs chemins. 2. Point de jonction de deux ou plusieurs voies. Point de rencontre de deux lignes ferroviaires. 3. Niveau de classification des êtres vivants, regroupant plusieurs classes présentant des caractères structuraux communs, situé entre la classe et le règne dans la hiérarchie taxinomique. Terme utilisé en classification phylogénétique pour diviser les différents règnes, y compris animal, végétal, fongique et autres.
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 embranchement
- embranchements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce embranchement?
- /ɑ̃.bʁɑ̃ʃ.mɑ̃/
- \ɑ̃.bʁɑ̃ʃ.mɑ̃\
- [ɑ̃.bʁɑ̃ʃ.mɑ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to embranchement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is embranchement in French?
embranchement appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).