clarté
French, noun/klaʁ.te/
clarté is spelled C-L-A-R-T-É (6 letters) and appears 6.0 times per million words in written French, the 9,803rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clarté is a French feminine noun meaning “light, illumination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lumière, lueur”.
What does clarté mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininelight, illumination
- 2
feminineclarity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lumière, lueur. 2. Objet, accessoire servant à éclairer. 3. Transparence. 4. Qualité des idées, du discours, du style qui les rend propres à être facilement compris.
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 clarté
- clartés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce clarté?
- /klaʁ.te/
- \klaʁ.te\
- [klaʁ.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 clarté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is clarté in French?
clarté appears 6.0 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).