auréole
French, noun
auréole is spelled A-U-R-É-O-L-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 43,844th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Auréole is a French feminine noun meaning “halo (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, auréolé is a different word: “basking in the glory”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cercle lumineux dont les artistes entourent le plus souvent la tête des saints ; il peut prendre dans…”.
What does auréole mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehalo (all senses)
adjective
- 1
basking in the glory
verb
- 1
past participle of auréoler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cercle lumineux dont les artistes entourent le plus souvent la tête des saints ; il peut prendre dans certains cas la forme d'un cadre oblong et lumineux entourant un personnage entier. 2. Certains phénomènes lumineux qui offrent l’apparence d’un cercle. 3. Degré de gloire qui distingue ceux qui méritent la gloire. 4. Tache en forme de cercle faite sur un différent type de matière.
adjective: 1. Qui possède ou est entouré d’une auréole.
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 auréole
- auréoles plural
- auréolée feminine
- auréolés masculine plural
- auréolées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to auréole
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is auréole in French?
auréole 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).