attorney
French, noun/a.tɔʁ.nɛ/
attorney is spelled A-T-T-O-R-N-E-Y (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 51,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Attorney is a French masculine noun meaning “attorney” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Homme de loi mandataire ; procureur ou avoué au Royaume-Uni, sorte d’avocat aux États-Unis”.
What does attorney mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineattorney
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Homme de loi mandataire ; procureur ou avoué au Royaume-Uni, sorte d’avocat aux États-Unis.
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 attorney
- attorneys plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce attorney?
- /a.tɔʁ.nɛ/
- \a.tɔʁ.nɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is attorney in French?
attorney appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).