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austral

French, adjective/os.tʁal/

austral is spelled A-U-S-T-R-A-L (7 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 28,870th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Austral is a French adjective meaning “austral” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui se situe du côté sud du globe terrestre, et plus spécialement qui se situe près du pôle Sud”.

What does austral mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    austral

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

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui se situe du côté sud du globe terrestre, et plus spécialement qui se situe près du pôle Sud.

noun: 1. Ancienne monnaie d’Argentine (1985–1991). Son symbole est ₳ (Unicode U+20B3).

noun: 1. Langue polynésienne parlée dans les îles Australes en Polynésie française. Son code ISO 639-3 est aut.

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 austral

  • australe feminine
  • austraux masculine plural
  • australes feminine plural
  • australs plural masculine

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

How do you pronounce austral?

  • /os.tʁal/
  • \os.tʁal\
  • \ɔs.tʁal\

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

English words that translate to austral

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

How common is austral in French?

austral appears 1.1 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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