épillet
French, noun/e.pi.jɛ/
épillet is spelled É-P-I-L-L-E-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 132,154th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Épillet is a French masculine noun meaning “spikelet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Épi secondaire portant les fleurs qui, regroupé à d’autres, forme l’épi ou la panicule d’une graminée”.
What does épillet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinespikelet
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Épi secondaire portant les fleurs qui, regroupé à d’autres, forme l’épi ou la panicule d’une graminée. 2. En pathologie animale, cause indirecte d'infection chez les animaux domestiques.
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 épillet
- épillets plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce épillet?
- /e.pi.jɛ/
- \e.pi.jɛ\
- [e.pi.jɛ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to épillet
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is épillet in French?
épillet 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).