beatnik
French, noun/bit.nik/
beatnik is spelled B-E-A-T-N-I-K (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 114,550th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beatnik is a French feminine noun meaning “beatnik” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Membre de la Beat Generation, mouvement littéraire et artistique né dans les années 1950, aux États-Unis”.
What does beatnik mean in English?
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Membre de la Beat Generation, mouvement littéraire et artistique né dans les années 1950, 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 beatnik
- beatniks plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce beatnik?
- /bit.nik/
- \bit.nik\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to beatnik
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beatnik in French?
beatnik appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).