entaille
French, noun
entaille is spelled E-N-T-A-I-L-L-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 35,423rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entaille is a French feminine noun meaning “cut, slice, gash; notch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of entailler. With an accent, entaillé is a different word: “past participle of entailler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Coupure avec enlèvement de parties, faite dans une pierre, dans une pièce de bois, etc., soit pour y en…”.
What does entaille mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecut, slice, gash; notch
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of entailler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Coupure avec enlèvement de parties, faite dans une pierre, dans une pièce de bois, etc., soit pour y en emboîter une autre, soit pour quelque autre objet. 2. Coupure faite dans un objet pour y laisser une marque. 3. Coupure faite dans les chairs.
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 entaille
- entailles plural
- entaillée feminine
- entaillés masculine plural
- entaillées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to entaille
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is entaille in French?
entaille appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).