enfumoir
French, noun/ɑ̃.fy.mwaʁ/
enfumoir is spelled E-N-F-U-M-O-I-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 62 million words in written French, the 247,574th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enfumoir is a French masculine noun meaning “bee smoker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ustensile permettant de projeter un peu de fumée vers une ruche, la fumée ayant un effet calmant sur les…”.
What does enfumoir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebee smoker
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ustensile permettant de projeter un peu de fumée vers une ruche, la fumée ayant un effet calmant sur les abeilles.
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 enfumoir
- enfumoirs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enfumoir?
- /ɑ̃.fy.mwaʁ/
- \ɑ̃.fy.mwaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is enfumoir in French?
enfumoir appears about once in every 62 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).