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éraillé

French, adjective

éraillé is spelled É-R-A-I-L-L-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written French, the 202,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Éraillé is a French adjective meaning “hoarse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of érailler. With an accent, éraille is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Usée, voilée, en parlant de la voix”.

What does éraillé mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    hoarse

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of érailler

verb

as éraille
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Usée, voilée, en parlant de la voix. 2. Effilé, relâché, écorché, en parlant d'un tissu. 3. Piqué de rouge, ensanglanté, en parlant de l'œil.

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 éraillé

  • éraillée feminine
  • éraillés masculine plural
  • éraillées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is éraillé in French?

éraillé appears about once in every 41 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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