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art

French, noun

art is spelled A-R-T (3 letters) and appears 182 times per million words in written French, the 447th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Art is a French masculine noun meaning “art” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, art. is a different word: “abbreviation of article”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Méthode pour faire un ouvrage, pour exécuter ou opérer quelque chose selon certaines règles”.

What does art mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineart

noun

as art.
  1. 1

    abbreviation of article

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Méthode pour faire un ouvrage, pour exécuter ou opérer quelque chose selon certaines règles. 2. Sans épithète, arts tant libéraux que mécaniques. 3. Ensemble des œuvres exécutées à une même époque et ayant entre elles des caractères communs. 4. Talent, habileté.

noun: 1. Article.

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 art

  • arts plural

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

English words that translate to art

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

How common is art in French?

art appears 182 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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