étouffement
French, noun\e.tuf.mɑ̃\
étouffement is spelled É-T-O-U-F-F-E-M-E-N-T (11 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 39,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Étouffement is a French masculine noun meaning “suffocation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Difficulté de respirer”.
What does étouffement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesuffocation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Difficulté de respirer. 2. Dispositif destiné à faire cesser la vibration des cordes d'un piano. 3. Dans diverses industries utilisant un four, chauffe à mi-température précédant le défournement. 4. Action d’étouffer, de tuer, les cocons de vers à soie, on dit aussi étouffage.
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 étouffement
- étouffements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce étouffement?
- \e.tuf.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 étouffement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is étouffement in French?
étouffement 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).