cénotaphe
French, noun/se.nɔ.taf/
cénotaphe is spelled C-É-N-O-T-A-P-H-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,791st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cénotaphe is a French masculine noun meaning “cenotaph” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tombeau vide, dressé à la mémoire et en l’honneur d’un mort (ou d’un ensemble de morts) dont le corps est…”.
What does cénotaphe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecenotaph
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tombeau vide, dressé à la mémoire et en l’honneur d’un mort (ou d’un ensemble de morts) dont le corps est perdu ou enterré quelque part ailleurs, contrairement au mausolée qui contient le corps directement.
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 cénotaphe
- cénotaphes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cénotaphe?
- /se.nɔ.taf/
- \se.nɔ.taf\
- \se.no.ˈta.fə\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cénotaphe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cénotaphe in French?
cénotaphe 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).