étirement
French, noun/e.tiʁ.mɑ̃/
étirement is spelled É-T-I-R-E-M-E-N-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,397th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Étirement is a French masculine noun meaning “stretch (act of stretching, all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fait de rendre plus long, d'étendre en amincissant sous l'effet d'une action mécanique”.
What does étirement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestretch (act of stretching, all senses)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fait de rendre plus long, d'étendre en amincissant sous l'effet d'une action mécanique. 2. Fait d'être très allongé. 3. Fait de déployer ses membres sur des mouvements amples. 4. Exercice musculaire permettant d’éviter les courbatures.
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 étirement
- étirements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce étirement?
- /e.tiʁ.mɑ̃/
- \e.ti.ʁə.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to étirement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is étirement in French?
étirement appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).