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appartement

French, noun/a.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃/

appartement is spelled A-P-P-A-R-T-E-M-E-N-T (11 letters) and appears 41 times per million words in written French, the 2,034th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Appartement is a French masculine noun meaning “apartment, flat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble de pièces formant une habitation indépendante dans un immeuble collectif”.

What does appartement mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineapartment, flat

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Ensemble de pièces formant une habitation indépendante dans un immeuble collectif. 2. Pièce où l’on a ses habitudes. 3. Pièce d'une maison ou d'un logement locatif.

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 appartement

  • appartements plural
  • apartement alternative obsolete

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

How do you pronounce appartement?

  • /a.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃/
  • \a.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃\
  • [a.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to appartement

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

How common is appartement in French?

appartement appears 41 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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