enfantillage
French, noun/ɑ̃.fɑ̃.ti.jaʒ/
enfantillage is spelled E-N-F-A-N-T-I-L-L-A-G-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 102,288th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enfantillage is a French masculine noun meaning “childishness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manière d’agir ou de parler qui ne convient qu’à un enfant, en parlant des personnes qui ont passé l’enfance”.
What does enfantillage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechildishness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Manière d’agir ou de parler qui ne convient qu’à un enfant, en parlant des personnes qui ont passé l’enfance.
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 enfantillage
- enfantillages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enfantillage?
- /ɑ̃.fɑ̃.ti.jaʒ/
- \ɑ̃.fɑ̃.ti.jaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to enfantillage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enfantillage in French?
enfantillage appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).