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enregistrement

French, noun

enregistrement is a French masculine noun meaning “registration” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, enrégistrement is a different word: “a registration, entry in a register”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’enregistrer ; transcription d’un acte dans un registre”.

What does enregistrement mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineregistration

  2. 2

    masculinesave (act of saving data onto a disk)

  3. 3

    masculinecheck-in (at the airport)

  4. 4

    masculinerecording (e.g. of music)

noun

as enrégistrement
  1. 1

    masculinea registration, entry in a register

  2. 2

    masculinean office in charge of certain official registrations

  3. 3

    masculinecheck-in

  4. 4

    masculinea deed by which a cour souveraine (each of the highest courts of justice) ordered a royal order or decree to be transcribed and entered into its own register of legislation

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Action d’enregistrer ; transcription d’un acte dans un registre. 2. Transcription ou de la simple mention d’un acte, d’un écrit quelconque, mais spécialement des contrats par-devant notaires, ou sous seing privé, dans des registres publics où cette transcription, cette mention est conservée. 3. Administration de l’enregistrement. 4. Notation des phénomènes physiques, particulièrement des images ou du son, à l’aide de certains appareils.

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 enregistrement

  • enregistrements plural
  • enrégistrements plural

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

English words that translate to enregistrement

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is enregistrement in French?

enregistrement appears 24 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).