encroûter
French, verb
encroûter is spelled E-N-C-R-O-Û-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 65 million words in written French, the 253,038th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encroûter is a French verb meaning “to encrust, crust over” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, encrouter is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of encroûter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enduire un mur de mortier”.
What does encroûter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to encrust, crust over
- 2
to crust over, form a crust
- 3
to get into a rut
verb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of encroûter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enduire un mur de mortier. 2. Recouvrir d'une couche de crasse. 3. Recouvrir d’une substance qui a séché. 4. Se figer dans des habitudes constantes et se replier sur soi.
verb: 1. Variante orthographique de encroûter.
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 encroûter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- encroûtant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- encroûté participle past
- encroûte first-person indicative present
- encroûtes indicative present second-person
- encroûtons first-person indicative plural
- encroûtez indicative plural present
- encroûtent indicative plural present
- encroûtais first-person imperfect indicative
- encroûtait imperfect indicative singular
- encroûtions first-person imperfect indicative
- encroûtiez imperfect indicative plural
- encroûtaient imperfect indicative plural
- encroûtai first-person historic indicative
- encroûtas historic indicative past
- encroûta historic indicative past
- encroûtâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to encroûter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encroûter in French?
encroûter appears about once in every 65 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).