emmitouflé
French, adjective
emmitouflé is spelled E-M-M-I-T-O-U-F-L-É (10 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 107,057th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emmitouflé is a French adjective meaning “bundled up, swaddled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, emmitoufle is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “(Familier) Enveloppé de fourrures, de vêtements, surtout au cou et à la tête, pour se tenir au chaud”.
What does emmitouflé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
bundled up, swaddled
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. (Familier) Enveloppé de fourrures, de vêtements, surtout au cou et à la tête, pour se tenir au chaud. 2. Recouvert d’une housse de protection.
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 emmitouflé
- emmitouflée feminine
- emmitouflés masculine plural
- emmitouflées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is emmitouflé in French?
emmitouflé appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).