conquête
French, noun/kɔ̃.kɛt/
conquête is spelled C-O-N-Q-U-Ê-T-E (8 letters) and appears 16 times per million words in written French, the 4,658th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Conquête is a French feminine noun meaning “conquest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de conquérir ; la chose conquise elle-même”.
What does conquête mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineconquest
- 2
feminineconquest (act of winning someone over)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de conquérir ; la chose conquise elle-même. 2. Prise de possession, par les armes (1759-1760) puis par traité (1763), du territoire de la Nouvelle-France par l'Empire britannique. → voir Conquête 3. Action de séduire, en parlant de l’amour, de la sympathie, voire, comme dans le sens 1, la personne séduite elle-même.
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 conquête
- conquêtes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce conquête?
- /kɔ̃.kɛt/
- /kɔ̃.kɛːt/
- \kɔ̃.kɛt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to conquête
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is conquête in French?
conquête appears 16 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).