combinat
French, noun
combinat is spelled C-O-M-B-I-N-A-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Combinat is a French masculine noun meaning “combine (in the old Soviet Union)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, combinât is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of combiner”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dans l’ancienne Union Soviétique et autres régimes socialistes de l'époque, groupement d’installations…”.
What does combinat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecombine (in the old Soviet Union)
verb
- 1
third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of combiner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dans l’ancienne Union Soviétique et autres régimes socialistes de l'époque, groupement d’installations industrielles implantées dans une même région et dont les activités sont complémentaires.
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 combinat
- combinats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is combinat in French?
combinat appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).