entr'acte
/ˈɒn.tɹækt/noun
entr'acte is a noun meaning “An interval between two acts of a play or opera” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-N-T-R-A-C-T-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of entr'acte is entr'actes.
What does entr'acte mean?
noun
- 1
An interval between two acts of a play or opera.
- 2
Another performance, such as a piece of music or a dance, during this.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce entr'acte?
- UK /ˈɒn.tɹækt/
- UK /ɒnˈtɹækt/
- UK /ˈɒ̃.tɹækt/
Entr'acte has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of entr'acte
- entr'actes plural
- entracte
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is entr'acte?
Entr'acte appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Entr'acte in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense interval between two acts:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does entr'acte come from?
Borrowed from French entr'acte.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).