emmêler
French, verb/ɑ̃.mɛ.le/
emmêler is spelled E-M-M-Ê-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 93,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emmêler is a French verb meaning “to tangle (to become mixed together or intertwined)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Brouiller, en parlant de fils”.
What does emmêler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tangle (to become mixed together or intertwined)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Brouiller, en parlant de fils. 2. Brouiller. 3. Utilisé sous forme d’expression pour gronder les enfants.
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 emmêler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- emmêlant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- emmêlé participle past
- emmêle first-person indicative present
- emmêles indicative present second-person
- emmêlons first-person indicative plural
- emmêlez indicative plural present
- emmêlent indicative plural present
- emmêlais first-person imperfect indicative
- emmêlait imperfect indicative singular
- emmêlions first-person imperfect indicative
- emmêliez imperfect indicative plural
- emmêlaient imperfect indicative plural
- emmêlai first-person historic indicative
- emmêlas historic indicative past
- emmêla historic indicative past
- emmêlâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emmêler?
- /ɑ̃.mɛ.le/
- /ɑ̃.me.le/
- \ɑ̃.me.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to emmêler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is emmêler in French?
emmêler appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).