ventail
French, noun/vɑ̃.taj/
ventail is spelled V-E-N-T-A-I-L (7 letters) and appears about once in every 62 million words in written French, the 247,574th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ventail is a French masculine noun meaning “post-1990 spelling of vantail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Battant d’une porte ou d’une fenêtre”.
What does ventail mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepost-1990 spelling of vantail
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Battant d’une porte ou d’une fenêtre. 2. Partie inférieure de l’ouverture d’un casque, d’un heaume, par laquelle on respirait.
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 ventail
- ventaux plural
- vantail
- venteau obsolete
- ventaille
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ventail?
- /vɑ̃.taj/
- \vɑ̃.taj\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ventail
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ventail in French?
ventail appears about once in every 62 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).