étui
French, noun/e.tɥi/
étui is spelled É-T-U-I (4 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Étui is a French masculine noun meaning “case (for glasses, cigars, soap, a viola)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Contenant pour mettre, porter ou conserver un objet, et dont la forme varie selon les objets”.
What does étui mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecase (for glasses, cigars, soap, a viola)
- 2
masculineholster (for a gun)
- 3
masculinecover (for an umbrella)
- 4
masculinecartridge (of a bullet)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Contenant pour mettre, porter ou conserver un objet, et dont la forme varie selon les objets. 2. Les deux élytres d’un coléoptère. 3. Douille.
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 étui
- étuis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce étui?
- /e.tɥi/
- \e.tɥi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to étui
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is étui in French?
étui appears 2.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).