enchâsser
French, verb/ɑ̃.ʃa.se/
enchâsser is spelled E-N-C-H-Â-S-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 150,781st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enchâsser is a French verb meaning “to enshrine, to put in a display cabinet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fixer dans un encadrement de bois, de pierre ou de matière précieuse”.
What does enchâsser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to enshrine, to put in a display cabinet
- 2
to lavish
- 3
to set (place inside a case)
- 4
to put or fix in a chassis
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fixer dans un encadrement de bois, de pierre ou de matière précieuse. 2. Fixer naturellement dans quelque chose, comme si on l’y avait enchâssé. 3. Insérer, faire entrer dans un discours ou dans tout autre ouvrage de l’esprit.
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 enchâsser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- enchâssant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- enchâssé participle past
- enchâsse first-person indicative present
- enchâsses indicative present second-person
- enchâssons first-person indicative plural
- enchâssez indicative plural present
- enchâssent indicative plural present
- enchâssais first-person imperfect indicative
- enchâssait imperfect indicative singular
- enchâssions first-person imperfect indicative
- enchâssiez imperfect indicative plural
- enchâssaient imperfect indicative plural
- enchâssai first-person historic indicative
- enchâssas historic indicative past
- enchâssa historic indicative past
- enchâssâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enchâsser?
- /ɑ̃.ʃa.se/
- /ɑ̃.ʃɑ.se/
- \ɑ̃.ʃɑ.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to enchâsser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enchâsser in French?
enchâsser appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).