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aridité

French, noun/a.ʁi.di.te/

aridité is spelled A-R-I-D-I-T-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 72,190th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aridité is a French feminine noun meaning “aridity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État de ce qui est aride”.

What does aridité mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininearidity

  2. 2

    femininebarrenness

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. État de ce qui est aride. 2. État de ce qui est stérile, au propre et au figuré. 3. État d’une âme qui ne sent pas de consolation dans les exercices de piété.

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 aridité

  • aridités plural

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

How do you pronounce aridité?

  • /a.ʁi.di.te/
  • \a.ʁi.di.te\

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

How common is aridité in French?

aridité appears about once in every 5 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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