empannage
French, noun/ɑ̃.pa.naʒ/
empannage is a French masculine noun meaning “gybe, gybing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manœuvre qu’effectue un voilier lorsqu’il change d’amures en passant par vent arrière”.
What does empannage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegybe, gybing
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Manœuvre qu’effectue un voilier lorsqu’il change d’amures en passant par vent arrière.
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 empannage
- empannages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empannage?
- /ɑ̃.pa.naʒ/
- \ɑ̃.pa.naʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to empannage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empannage in French?
empannage appears about once in every 41 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).