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émotionnel

French, adjective/e.mo.sjɔ.nɛl/

émotionnel is spelled É-M-O-T-I-O-N-N-E-L (10 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written French, the 13,339th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émotionnel is a French adjective meaning “emotional” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif aux émotions et à leur expression”.

What does émotionnel mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    emotional

    intelligence émotionnelle

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Relatif aux émotions et à leur expression. 2. Qui génère des émotions.

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 émotionnel

  • émotionnelle feminine
  • émotionnels masculine plural
  • émotionnelles feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce émotionnel?

  • /e.mo.sjɔ.nɛl/
  • \e.mɔ.sjɔ.nɛl\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to émotionnel

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is émotionnel in French?

émotionnel appears 3.9 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).

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