évitement
French, noun/e.vit.mɑ̃/
évitement is spelled É-V-I-T-E-M-E-N-T (9 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 26,299th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Évitement is a French masculine noun meaning “avoidance, eschewal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’éviter une chose, une personne, une situation, voire une idée”.
What does évitement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineavoidance, eschewal
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’éviter une chose, une personne, une situation, voire une idée. 2. Action de prévenir la rencontre de deux trains. 3. Installation permettant l’évitement. 4. Changement de cap.
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 évitement
- évitements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce évitement?
- /e.vit.mɑ̃/
- \e.vit.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 évitement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is évitement in French?
évitement appears 1.3 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).