enjoliver
French, verb/ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.ve/
enjoliver is spelled E-N-J-O-L-I-V-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 79,170th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enjoliver is a French verb meaning “to embellish, prettify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre joli, rendre plus joli, embellir”.
What does enjoliver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to embellish, prettify
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre joli, rendre plus joli, embellir. 2. Il est pris parfois avec une intention critique.
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 enjoliver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- enjolivant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- enjolivé participle past
- enjolive first-person indicative present
- enjolives indicative present second-person
- enjolivons first-person indicative plural
- enjolivez indicative plural present
- enjolivent indicative plural present
- enjolivais first-person imperfect indicative
- enjolivait imperfect indicative singular
- enjolivions first-person imperfect indicative
- enjoliviez imperfect indicative plural
- enjolivaient imperfect indicative plural
- enjolivai first-person historic indicative
- enjolivas historic indicative past
- enjoliva historic indicative past
- enjolivâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enjoliver?
- /ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.ve/
- \ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.ve\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to enjoliver
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enjoliver in French?
enjoliver appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).