empailler
French, verb/ɑ̃.pa.je/
empailler is spelled E-M-P-A-I-L-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 100,007th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empailler is a French verb meaning “to stuff (to preserve a dead animal by filling its skin)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Garnir de paille”.
What does empailler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stuff (to preserve a dead animal by filling its skin)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Garnir de paille. 2. Envelopper de paille. 3. Mettre de la paille autour d’une plante, d’un jeune arbre. 4. Remplir de paille.
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 empailler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- empaillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- empaillé participle past
- empaille first-person indicative present
- empailles indicative present second-person
- empaillons first-person indicative plural
- empaillez indicative plural present
- empaillent indicative plural present
- empaillais first-person imperfect indicative
- empaillait imperfect indicative singular
- empaillions first-person imperfect indicative
- empailliez imperfect indicative plural
- empaillaient imperfect indicative plural
- empaillai first-person historic indicative
- empaillas historic indicative past
- empailla historic indicative past
- empaillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empailler?
- /ɑ̃.pa.je/
- \ɑ̃.pɑ.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is empailler in French?
empailler appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).