emmuré
French, verb
emmuré is spelled E-M-M-U-R-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 102,288th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emmuré is a French verb meaning “past participle of emmurer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, emmure is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does emmuré mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of emmurer
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. Entouré de murs, donnant une impression d'enfermement. 2. Bloqué sans perspective de sortie, comme une personne emmurée vivante.
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 emmuré
- emmurée feminine
- emmurés masculine plural
- emmurées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is emmuré in French?
emmuré appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).