encourageant
French, adjective/ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒɑ̃/
encourageant is spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-A-N-T (12 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written French, the 15,330th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encourageant is a French adjective meaning “encouraging (providing encouragement)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of encourager. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui encourage”.
What does encourageant mean in English?
adjective
- 1
encouraging (providing encouragement)
verb
- 1
present participle of encourager
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui encourage.
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 encourageant
- encourageante feminine
- encourageants masculine plural
- encourageantes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encourageant?
- /ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒɑ̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encourageant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encourageant in French?
encourageant appears 3.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).