contact
French, noun/kɔ̃.takt/
contact is spelled C-O-N-T-A-C-T (7 letters) and appears 66 times per million words in written French, the 1,256th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contact is a French masculine noun meaning “contact; contact (with another person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de toucher physiquement”.
What does contact mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecontact; contact (with another person)
- 2
masculinecontact (person that one knows)
- 3
masculinerapport
Vous avez un bon contact avec les enfants.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de toucher physiquement. 2. État de deux ou plusieurs corps qui se touchent. 3. Liaison ; relation ; communication. 4. Personne avec laquelle on est en communication.
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 contact
- contacts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce contact?
- /kɔ̃.takt/
- \kɔ̃.takt\
- [kɔ̃.takt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to contact
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is contact in French?
contact appears 66 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).