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atelier

French, noun/a.tə.lje/

atelier is spelled A-T-E-L-I-E-R (7 letters) and appears 28 times per million words in written French, the 2,820th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Atelier is a French masculine noun meaning “workshop” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lieu où se fait un travail manuel”.

What does atelier mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineworkshop

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Lieu où se fait un travail manuel. 2. Lieu de travail. 3. Espace, dans une usine, consacré à la production. 4. Lieu où travaille un artiste.

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 atelier

  • ateliers plural

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

How do you pronounce atelier?

  • /a.tə.lje/
  • \a.tə.lje\
  • [atlje]

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

English words that translate to atelier

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

How common is atelier in French?

atelier appears 28 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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