encrier
French, noun/ɑ̃.kʁi.je/
encrier is spelled E-N-C-R-I-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,146th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encrier is a French masculine noun meaning “inkwell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit vase où l’on met de l’encre et où on la prend avec la plume”.
What does encrier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineinkwell
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit vase où l’on met de l’encre et où on la prend avec la plume. 2. Sorte de planche ou de table carrée sur laquelle les imprimeurs prenaient, avec un tampon ou avec le rouleau, l’encre dont ils noircissaient la forme. 3. Réservoir fournissant l’encre aux rouleaux d’une presse mécanique ou d’une machine rotative.
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 encrier
- encriers plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encrier?
- /ɑ̃.kʁi.je/
- \ɑ̃.kʁi.je\
- [ɑ̃.kʁi.je]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encrier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encrier in French?
encrier appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).