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jaunissement

French, noun\ʒo.nis.mɑ̃\

jaunissement is spelled J-A-U-N-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T (12 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 104,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jaunissement is a French masculine noun meaning “yellowing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Le fait de devenir jaune”.

What does jaunissement mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineyellowing

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Le fait de devenir jaune.

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 jaunissement

  • jaunissements plural

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

How do you pronounce jaunissement?

  • \ʒo.nis.mɑ̃\

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

How common is jaunissement in French?

jaunissement appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.

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

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