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contrat

French, noun

contrat is spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-T (7 letters) and appears 91 times per million words in written French, the 922nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contrat is a French masculine noun meaning “contract” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, contrât is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of contrer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Convention (même non écrite) entre deux ou plusieurs personnes, plus précisément entre un ou plusieurs…”.

What does contrat mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecontract

verb

as contrât
  1. 1

    third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of contrer

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Convention (même non écrite) entre deux ou plusieurs personnes, plus précisément entre un ou plusieurs créanciers et un ou plusieurs débiteurs, ayant pour effet de créer entre elles une obligation (obligation conventionnelle). 2. Nombre de plis que doivent remporter le ou les joueurs qui gagnent les annonces. 3. Acte qui enregistre cette convention. 4. Commande visant à faire assassiner quelqu'un.

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 contrat

  • contrats plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to contrat

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is contrat in French?

contrat appears 91 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).

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