enchaînement
French, noun
enchaînement is spelled E-N-C-H-A-Î-N-E-M-E-N-T (12 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written French, the 16,835th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enchaînement is a French masculine noun meaning “sequence, series, chain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, enchainement is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of enchaînement”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de enchainement”.
What does enchaînement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesequence, series, chain
- 2
masculineset of linked steps
- 3
masculineresyllabification
noun
- 1
masculinepost-1990 spelling of enchaînement
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de enchainement.
noun: 1. Action d’enchainer. 2. Ensemble, réunion de choses qui forment une chaine. 3. Liaison ou suite de plusieurs choses de même nature, de même qualité, ou de choses qui ont entre elles certains rapports. 4. Succession coordonnée de mouvements dans la recherche de la meilleure performance.
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 enchaînement
- enchainements plural
- enchaînements plural
- enchainement alternative
- enchaînement
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to enchaînement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enchaînement in French?
enchaînement appears 2.8 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).