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alerte

French, noun

alerte is spelled A-L-E-R-T-E (6 letters) and appears 27 times per million words in written French, the 2,920th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alerte is a French feminine noun meaning “alert” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of alerter. With an accent, alerté is a different word: “past participle of alerter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Avertissement d’être sur ses gardes”.

What does alerte mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    alert

  2. 2

    agile

noun

  1. 1

    femininealert

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as alerté
  1. 1

    past participle of alerter

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

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui se tient sur ses gardes. 2. Qui est prompt, agile et souple.

interjection: 1. Debout, soyez sur vos gardes.

noun: 1. Avertissement d’être sur ses gardes.

verb: 1. Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de alerter.

adjective: 1. Qui a été prévenu, informé d’un risque.

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 alerte

  • alertes plural
  • alertée feminine
  • alertés masculine plural
  • alertées feminine plural
  • alarte
  • j’alerte indicative present
  • il/elle/on alerte indicative present
  • que j’alerte subjunctive present
  • qu’il/elle/on alerte subjunctive present

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

English words that translate to alerte

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

How common is alerte in French?

alerte appears 27 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).

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