crainte
French, noun/kʁɛ̃t/
crainte is spelled C-R-A-I-N-T-E (7 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,025th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crainte is a French feminine noun meaning “fear, fright” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fait de craindre ou de redouter quelque chose”.
What does crainte mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefear, fright
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fait de craindre ou de redouter quelque chose. 2. Anticipation de graves représailles constituant légalement un vice du consentement.
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 crainte
- craintes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crainte?
- /kʁɛ̃t/
- \kʁɛ̃t\
- [kʁɛ̃t]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to crainte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is crainte in French?
crainte appears 14 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).