émotion
French, noun/e.mo.sjɔ̃/
émotion is spelled É-M-O-T-I-O-N (7 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written French, the 3,674th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émotion is a French feminine noun meaning “emotion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Réaction affective subite, temporaire et involontaire, souvent accompagnée de manifestations physiques…”.
What does émotion mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineemotion
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Réaction affective subite, temporaire et involontaire, souvent accompagnée de manifestations physiques, provoquée par un sentiment intense de peur, de colère, de surprise, d’admiration, de déception etc. 2. Mouvements populaires qui annoncent une disposition au soulèvement, à la révolte.
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 émotion
- émotions plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce émotion?
- /e.mo.sjɔ̃/
- \e.mo.sjɔ̃\
- \e.mɔ.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to émotion
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is émotion in French?
émotion appears 21 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).