émoustillant
French, adjective/e.mus.ti.jɑ̃/
émoustillant is spelled É-M-O-U-S-T-I-L-L-A-N-T (12 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written French, the 226,484th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émoustillant is a French adjective meaning “titillating, arousing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of émoustiller. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui émoustille”.
What does émoustillant mean in English?
adjective
- 1
titillating, arousing
Near-synonym: excitant
verb
- 1
present participle of émoustiller
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui émoustille.
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 émoustillant
- émoustillante feminine
- émoustillants masculine plural
- émoustillantes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce émoustillant?
- /e.mus.ti.jɑ̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is émoustillant in French?
émoustillant appears about once in every 51 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).