encornet
French, noun\ɑ̃.kɔʁ.nɛ\
encornet is spelled E-N-C-O-R-N-E-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 187,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encornet is a French masculine noun meaning “squid (cooked) (sea animal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Calmar, mollusque céphalopode à dix bras appartenant à l’ordre Teuthida, surtout considéré comme aliment ou…”.
What does encornet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesquid (cooked) (sea animal)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Calmar, mollusque céphalopode à dix bras appartenant à l’ordre Teuthida, surtout considéré comme aliment ou appât pour la pêche. 2. Nom servant à désigner d’autres mollusques céphalopodes comme la seiche ou le poulpe.
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 encornet
- encornets plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encornet?
- \ɑ̃.kɔʁ.nɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encornet
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encornet in French?
encornet appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).