enchâssement
French, noun/ɑ̃.ʃas.mɑ̃/
enchâssement is spelled E-N-C-H-Â-S-S-E-M-E-N-T (12 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 146,077th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enchâssement is a French masculine noun meaning “embedding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État de ce qui est enchâssé”.
What does enchâssement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineembedding
- 2
masculineembeddedness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État de ce qui est enchâssé. 2. Représentation d'une donnée par un vecteur de nombres réels.
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 enchâssement
- enchâssements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enchâssement?
- /ɑ̃.ʃas.mɑ̃/
- /ɑ̃.ʃɑs.mɑ̃/
- \ɑ̃.ʃɑs.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is enchâssement in French?
enchâssement appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).