entrouvrir
French, verb/ɑ̃.tʁu.vʁiʁ/
entrouvrir is spelled E-N-T-R-O-U-V-R-I-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 98,883rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entrouvrir is a French verb meaning “to half-open; to leave ajar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ouvrir en partie”.
What does entrouvrir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to half-open; to leave ajar
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ouvrir en partie. 2. Écarter les jambes dans un mouvement violent qui provoque l’entrouverture.
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 entrouvrir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- entrouvrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- entrouvert participle past
- entrouvre first-person indicative present
- entrouvres indicative present second-person
- entrouvrons first-person indicative plural
- entrouvrez indicative plural present
- entrouvrent indicative plural present
- entrouvrais first-person imperfect indicative
- entrouvrait imperfect indicative singular
- entrouvrions first-person imperfect indicative
- entrouvriez imperfect indicative plural
- entrouvraient imperfect indicative plural
- entrouvris first-person historic indicative
- entrouvrit historic indicative past
- entrouvrîmes first-person historic indicative
- entrouvrîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce entrouvrir?
- /ɑ̃.tʁu.vʁiʁ/
- \ɑ̃.tʁu.vʁiʁ\
- [ɑ̃.tʁu.vʁiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is entrouvrir in French?
entrouvrir appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).