calamité
French, noun/ka.la.mi.te/
calamité is spelled C-A-L-A-M-I-T-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 39,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calamité is a French masculine noun meaning “calamity, disaster” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Malheur public qui se répand sur une contrée, sur une ville”.
What does calamité mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecalamity, disaster
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Désigne une trémolite d’un gris jaunâtre, en longues fibres lamellaires cannelées, de Norvège. 2. Sorte de végétal fossile que l’on tire des roseaux. 3. Plante cryptogame fossile. 4. Le crapaud calamite (ou Epidalea calamita).
noun: 1. Malheur public qui se répand sur une contrée, sur une ville. 2. Grands malheurs qui frappent les particuliers. 3. Nuisance ; catastrophe ; accumulation de problèmes ou de déboires.
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 calamité
- calamités plural
- calamites plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce calamité?
- /ka.la.mi.te/
- \ka.la.mit\
- \ka.la.mi.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to calamité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calamité in French?
calamité appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).