entrebâillement
French, noun/ɑ̃.tʁə.baj.mɑ̃/
entrebâillement is spelled E-N-T-R-E-B-Â-I-L-L-E-M-E-N-T (15 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entrebâillement is a French masculine noun meaning “crack, chink (small gap)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Intervalle produit par ce qui est entrebâillé”.
What does entrebâillement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrack, chink (small gap)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Intervalle produit par ce qui est entrebâillé.
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 entrebâillement
- entrebâillements plural
- entre-bâillement
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce entrebâillement?
- /ɑ̃.tʁə.baj.mɑ̃/
- \ɑ̃t.ʁə.baj.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is entrebâillement in French?
entrebâillement appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).