arcane
French, noun/aʁ.kan/
arcane is spelled A-R-C-A-N-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 63,613th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arcane is a French masculine noun meaning “mysteries, arcanum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Remède secret”.
What does arcane mean in English?
adjective
- 1
datedarcane, secret, mysterious
noun
- 1
masculinemysteries, arcanum
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est secret, mystérieux.
noun: 1. Remède secret. 2. Carte du jeu de tarot divinatoire. 3. Secrets, chose mystérieuse et incompréhensible au sens commun. 4. Nom donné à un alliage métallique, utilisé autrefois pour l'étamage et dont les ouvriers gardaient la composition secrète, d'où son nom. On disait aussi arcane corralien.
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 arcane
- arcanes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arcane?
- /aʁ.kan/
- \aʁ.kan\
- [aʁ.kan]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arcane
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arcane in French?
arcane appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).