ensabler
French, verb/ɑ̃.sa.ble/
ensabler is spelled E-N-S-A-B-L-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written French, the 223,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ensabler is a French verb meaning “to silt up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Remplir de sable”.
What does ensabler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to silt up
- 2
to strand (on a sandbank or beach)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Remplir de sable. 2. Faire échouer sur le sable. 3. S’enliser dans le sable. 4. Être immobilisé, figé, empêché de se dégager.
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 ensabler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ensablant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ensablé participle past
- ensable first-person indicative present
- ensables indicative present second-person
- ensablons first-person indicative plural
- ensablez indicative plural present
- ensablent indicative plural present
- ensablais first-person imperfect indicative
- ensablait imperfect indicative singular
- ensablions first-person imperfect indicative
- ensabliez imperfect indicative plural
- ensablaient imperfect indicative plural
- ensablai first-person historic indicative
- ensablas historic indicative past
- ensabla historic indicative past
- ensablâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ensabler?
- /ɑ̃.sa.ble/
- /ɑ̃.sɑ.ble/
- \ɑ̃.sa.ble\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ensabler in French?
ensabler appears about once in every 50 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).