bétail
French, noun/be.taj/
bétail is spelled B-É-T-A-I-L (6 letters) and appears 6.6 times per million words in written French, the 9,132nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bétail is a French masculine noun meaning “livestock” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble des animaux domestiques d’une exploitation rurale, en exceptant la volaille”.
What does bétail mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelivestock
- 2
masculinecattle
- 3
colloquialmasculineinsect
- 4
colloquialmasculineanimal, beast, monster
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ensemble des animaux domestiques d’une exploitation rurale, en exceptant la volaille. 2. Collectivité, humanité. 3. Personne de forte corpulence. 4. Insecte.
adverb: 1. De façon rustre, grossière.
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 bétail
- bétails plural
- bétaille alternative Louisiana
- bétaux singular
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bétail?
- /be.taj/
- \be.taj\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bétail
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bétail in French?
bétail appears 6.6 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).