emmailloter
French, verb/ɑ̃.ma.jɔ.te/
emmailloter is spelled E-M-M-A-I-L-L-O-T-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written French, the 202,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emmailloter is a French verb meaning “to wrap, to bind, to swaddle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre un petit enfant dans un maillot”.
What does emmailloter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wrap, to bind, to swaddle
- 2
to coddle, to pamper, to mollycoddle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre un petit enfant dans un maillot. 2. Mettre un bandage à une partie blessée. 3. Envelopper.
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 emmailloter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- emmaillotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- emmailloté participle past
- emmaillote first-person indicative present
- emmaillotes indicative present second-person
- emmaillotons first-person indicative plural
- emmaillotez indicative plural present
- emmaillotent indicative plural present
- emmaillotais first-person imperfect indicative
- emmaillotait imperfect indicative singular
- emmaillotions first-person imperfect indicative
- emmaillotiez imperfect indicative plural
- emmaillotaient imperfect indicative plural
- emmaillotai first-person historic indicative
- emmaillotas historic indicative past
- emmaillota historic indicative past
- emmaillotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emmailloter?
- /ɑ̃.ma.jɔ.te/
- \ɑ̃.ma.jɔ.te\
- [ɑ̃.ma.jɔ.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to emmailloter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is emmailloter in French?
emmailloter appears about once in every 41 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).