esperluette
French, noun/ɛs.pɛʁ.lɥɛt/
esperluette is spelled E-S-P-E-R-L-U-E-T-T-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 115,758th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Esperluette is a French feminine noun meaning “ampersand” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Logogramme & correspondant à la conjonction de coordination et”.
What does esperluette mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineampersand
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Logogramme & correspondant à la conjonction de coordination et.
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 esperluette
- esperluettes plural
- esperluète alternative
- éperluette
- perluète
- perluette
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esperluette?
- /ɛs.pɛʁ.lɥɛt/
- \es.pɛʁ.lɥɛt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to esperluette
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is esperluette in French?
esperluette appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).