bénévolat
French, noun
bénévolat is spelled B-É-N-É-V-O-L-A-T (9 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written French, the 17,903rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bénévolat is a French masculine noun meaning “volunteering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, bénévolât is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of bénévoler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fait d’accomplir une action bénévole”.
What does bénévolat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinevolunteering
verb
- 1
third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of bénévoler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fait d’accomplir une action bénévole.
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 bénévolat
- bénévolats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is bénévolat in French?
bénévolat appears 2.5 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).