mentonnière
French, noun/mɑ̃.tɔ.njɛʁ/
mentonnière is spelled M-E-N-T-O-N-N-I-È-R-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 103,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mentonnière is a French feminine noun meaning “beaver (lower part of a helmet)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie inférieure de la visière des casques qui protégeait la mâchoire inférieure”.
What does mentonnière mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebeaver (lower part of a helmet)
- 2
femininechinrest
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie inférieure de la visière des casques qui protégeait la mâchoire inférieure. 2. Bande de toile ou d’étoffe qui tenait autrefois aux masques et dont on se couvrait le menton. 3. Partie d'un casque qui protège le menton ou la mâchoire, qui est soit serré sur le menton avec un sangle pour maintenir le casque en position, soit tenu rigidement devant le visage. 4. Bande de toile dont on enveloppe le menton dans les cas de blessure ou de fluxion.
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 mentonnière
- mentonnières plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mentonnière?
- /mɑ̃.tɔ.njɛʁ/
- \mɑ̃.tɔ.njɛʁ\
- [mɑ̃.tɔ.njɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mentonnière in French?
mentonnière 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).