ancienneté
French, noun/ɑ̃.sjɛn.te/
ancienneté is spelled A-N-C-I-E-N-N-E-T-É (10 letters) and appears 4.6 times per million words in written French, the 11,928th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ancienneté is a French feminine noun meaning “oldness (state of being old)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualité de ce qui est ancien”.
What does ancienneté mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineoldness (state of being old)
- 2
feminineseniority (state of being senior)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Qualité de ce qui est ancien. 2. Antiquité plus ou moins reculée de son origine. 3. Priorité de réception dans une compagnie, dans un corps ou de nomination à un grade.
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 ancienneté
- anciennetés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ancienneté?
- /ɑ̃.sjɛn.te/
- \ɑ̃.sjɛn.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ancienneté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ancienneté in French?
ancienneté appears 4.6 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).