audace
French, noun/o.das/
audace is spelled A-U-D-A-C-E (6 letters) and appears 6.0 times per million words in written French, the 9,803rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Audace is a French feminine noun meaning “audacity, boldness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Hardiesse, parfois excessive”.
What does audace mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineaudacity, boldness
- 2
feminineaudacity, impudence
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Hardiesse, parfois excessive. 2. Ganse utilisée au XVIIᵉ siècle pour relever les bords des chapeaux d’hommes et donner à ces dernier un air audacieux.
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 audace
- audaces plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce audace?
- /o.das/
- \o.das\
- [yn‿o.das]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to audace
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is audace in French?
audace appears 6.0 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).