entrecouper
French, verb/ɑ̃.tʁə.ku.pe/
entrecouper is spelled E-N-T-R-E-C-O-U-P-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 175,987th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entrecouper is a French verb meaning “to interrupt; to intersperse; to scatter with” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couper, interrompre en divers endroits, par divers endroits”.
What does entrecouper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to interrupt; to intersperse; to scatter with
- 2
to intersect, to cross one another
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Couper, interrompre en divers endroits, par divers endroits. 2. Se couper l’une l’autre, en parlant de lignes, de chemins qui se croisent.
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 entrecouper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- entrecoupant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- entrecoupé participle past
- entrecoupe first-person indicative present
- entrecoupes indicative present second-person
- entrecoupons first-person indicative plural
- entrecoupez indicative plural present
- entrecoupent indicative plural present
- entrecoupais first-person imperfect indicative
- entrecoupait imperfect indicative singular
- entrecoupions first-person imperfect indicative
- entrecoupiez imperfect indicative plural
- entrecoupaient imperfect indicative plural
- entrecoupai first-person historic indicative
- entrecoupas historic indicative past
- entrecoupa historic indicative past
- entrecoupâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce entrecouper?
- /ɑ̃.tʁə.ku.pe/
- \ɑ̃.tʁə.ku.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is entrecouper in French?
entrecouper appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).