emprisonnement
French, noun/ɑ̃.pʁi.zɔn.mɑ̃/
emprisonnement is spelled E-M-P-R-I-S-O-N-N-E-M-E-N-T (14 letters) and appears 7.4 times per million words in written French, the 8,354th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emprisonnement is a French masculine noun meaning “imprisonment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’emprisonner”.
What does emprisonnement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineimprisonment
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’emprisonner.
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 emprisonnement
- emprisonnements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emprisonnement?
- /ɑ̃.pʁi.zɔn.mɑ̃/
- \ɑ̃.pʁi.zɔn.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to emprisonnement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is emprisonnement in French?
emprisonnement appears 7.4 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).