acte
French, noun
acte is spelled A-C-T-E (4 letters) and appears 62 times per million words in written French, the 1,363rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acte is a French masculine noun meaning “act” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, acté is a different word: “past participle of acter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Résultat d’une action, opération accomplie”.
What does acte mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineact
verb
- 1
past participle of acter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Résultat d’une action, opération accomplie. 2. Capacité d’agir. 3. Action, ce qu’on fait ou ce qu’on peut faire. 4. Écrit produisant des effets de droit.
noun: 1. Mesure de longueur et de superficie chez les anciens Romains.
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 acte
- actes plural
- actée feminine
- actés masculine plural
- actées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to acte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acte in French?
acte appears 62 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).