archétype
French, noun/aʁ.ke.tip/
archétype is spelled A-R-C-H-É-T-Y-P-E (9 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,592nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Archétype is a French masculine noun meaning “archetype” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Type ou modèle primitif et idéal, en concurrence avec prototype”.
What does archétype mean in English?
adjective
- 1
archetypal
noun
- 1
masculinearchetype
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Type ou modèle primitif et idéal, en concurrence avec prototype. 2. Modèle ou type représentatif. 3. Modèle approchant la perfection, dans les Idées platoniciennes. 4. Type d’après lequel est fait un ouvrage.
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 archétype
- archétypes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce archétype?
- /aʁ.ke.tip/
- \aʁ.ke.tip\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to archétype
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is archétype in French?
archétype appears 1.4 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).