empêtré
French, adjective
empêtré is spelled E-M-P-Ê-T-R-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 54,486th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empêtré is a French adjective meaning “entangled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of empêtrer. With an accent, empêtre is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pris dans des entraves, dans des longes, dans des lacets, etc”.
What does empêtré mean in English?
adjective
- 1
entangled
- 2
bogged down
verb
- 1
past participle of empêtrer
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Pris dans des entraves, dans des longes, dans des lacets, etc. 2. Gêné, contraint. 3. Pris dans une situation quasi inextricable. 4. Se dit des animaux à membres courts, comme les phoques, et des oiseaux dont les pieds sont situés à l’arrière du corps.
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 empêtré
- empêtrée feminine
- empêtrés masculine plural
- empêtrées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is empêtré in French?
empêtré appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).