enchevêtrement
French, noun/ɑ̃ʃ.vɛ.tʁə.mɑ̃/
enchevêtrement is spelled E-N-C-H-E-V-Ê-T-R-E-M-E-N-T (14 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enchevêtrement is a French masculine noun meaning “tangle, mixture, muddle (of concretes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’enchevêtrer ou état d’une ou de plusieurs choses enchevêtrées”.
What does enchevêtrement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetangle, mixture, muddle (of concretes)
un enchevêtrement de fils
- 2
masculinejumble, labyrinth, chaos (of abstracts)
un enchevêtrement d'idées
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’enchevêtrer ou état d’une ou de plusieurs choses enchevêtrées.
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 enchevêtrement
- enchevêtrements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enchevêtrement?
- /ɑ̃ʃ.vɛ.tʁə.mɑ̃/
- /ɑ̃ʃ.ve.tʁə.mɑ̃/
- /ɑ̃.ʃə.vɛ.tʁə.mɑ̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is enchevêtrement in French?
enchevêtrement appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).