étendoir
French, noun/e.tɑ̃.dwaʁ/
étendoir is spelled É-T-E-N-D-O-I-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 127,906th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Étendoir is a French masculine noun meaning “clotheshorse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qui sert à étendre”.
What does étendoir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineclotheshorse
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ce qui sert à étendre. 2. Corde tendue entre deux points d’attache, ou système comprenant de fines baguettes, sur lesquels on fait sécher le linge. 3. Endroit où l’on étend. 4. Objet servant à étendre le linge.
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 étendoir
- étendoirs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce étendoir?
- /e.tɑ̃.dwaʁ/
- \e.tɑ̃.dwaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to étendoir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is étendoir in French?
étendoir appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).