allochtone
French, noun/a.lɔk.tɔn/
allochtone is spelled A-L-L-O-C-H-T-O-N-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 161,134th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Allochtone is a French feminine noun meaning “a non-native person, a foreign-born person, a foreigner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne non autochtone”.
What does allochtone mean in English?
adjective
- 1
allochthonous
noun
- 1
femininemasculinea non-native person, a foreign-born person, a foreigner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. D’origine étrangère, en parlant d’une personne. 2. Se dit des terrains qui ont été charriés et qui en recouvrent d’autres pouvant être plus récents et dits autochtones. 3. Se dit des espèces d’origine étrangère au biome local, introduites volontairement ou accidentellement par l’être humain.
noun: 1. Personne non autochtone.
noun: 1. Personne d’origine étrangère.
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 allochtone
- allochtones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce allochtone?
- /a.lɔk.tɔn/
- \a.lɔk.tɔn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to allochtone
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is allochtone in French?
allochtone appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).