encouragement
French, noun/ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ.mɑ̃/
encouragement is spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-M-E-N-T (13 letters) and appears 3.3 times per million words in written French, the 14,875th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encouragement is a French masculine noun meaning “an encouragement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qui encourage”.
What does encouragement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinean encouragement
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ce 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 encouragement
- encouragements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encouragement?
- /ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ.mɑ̃/
- \ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encouragement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encouragement in French?
encouragement appears 3.3 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).