azerty
French, noun
azerty is a French masculine noun meaning “azerty keyboard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, AZERTY is a different word: “alternative form of azerty”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de la disposition de clavier américaine qwerty, variante qui a été mise au point en France au début…”.
What does azerty mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineazerty keyboard
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of azerty
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de la disposition de clavier américaine qwerty, variante qui a été mise au point en France au début du XXᵉ siècle.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de azerty.
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 azerty
- AZERTY
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is azerty in French?
azerty appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).