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étiolement

French\e.tjɔl.mɑ̃\

étiolement is a French noun. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’étioler ou de s’étioler, ou résultat de cette action”; the English Wiktionary has no entry for it yet.

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Action d’étioler ou de s’étioler, ou résultat de cette action.

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 étiolement

  • étiolements plural

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

How do you pronounce étiolement?

  • \e.tjɔl.mɑ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is étiolement in French?

étiolement appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.

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