enchevêtrer
French, verb/ɑ̃.ʃə.vɛ.tʁe/
enchevêtrer is spelled E-N-C-H-E-V-Ê-T-R-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written French, the 255,834th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enchevêtrer is a French verb meaning “to tangle up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Attacher un cheval avec un chevêtre, un licou”.
What does enchevêtrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tangle up
- 2
to entangle, to involve, to implicate
- 3
to become tangled
- 4
to get tangled up, to get mixed up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Attacher un cheval avec un chevêtre, un licou. 2. Relier des solives avec un chevêtre. 3. Mêler, embrouiller les unes dans les autres, en parlant des choses.
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 enchevêtrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- enchevêtrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- enchevêtré participle past
- enchevêtre first-person indicative present
- enchevêtres indicative present second-person
- enchevêtrons first-person indicative plural
- enchevêtrez indicative plural present
- enchevêtrent indicative plural present
- enchevêtrais first-person imperfect indicative
- enchevêtrait imperfect indicative singular
- enchevêtrions first-person imperfect indicative
- enchevêtriez imperfect indicative plural
- enchevêtraient imperfect indicative plural
- enchevêtrai first-person historic indicative
- enchevêtras historic indicative past
- enchevêtra historic indicative past
- enchevêtrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enchevêtrer?
- /ɑ̃.ʃə.vɛ.tʁe/
- /ɑ̃.ʃə.ve.tʁe/
- \ɑ̃.ʃə.ve.tʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to enchevêtrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enchevêtrer in French?
enchevêtrer appears about once in every 66 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).