voûtement
French, noun/vut.mɑ̃/
voûtement is spelled V-O-Û-T-E-M-E-N-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Voûtement is a French masculine noun meaning “vaulting (collectively, the vaults of a building or structure)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble des voûtes dans une construction”.
What does voûtement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinevaulting (collectively, the vaults of a building or structure)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ensemble des voûtes dans une construction.
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 voûtement
- voûtements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce voûtement?
- /vut.mɑ̃/
- \vut.mɑ̃\
- [vut.mɑ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is voûtement in French?
voûtement appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).