détail
French, noun/de.taj/
détail is spelled D-É-T-A-I-L (6 letters) and appears 38 times per million words in written French, the 2,172nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Détail is a French masculine noun meaning “detail (something small enough to escape casual notice, or a profusion of details)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chacune des parties qui concourent à la composition et à la formation d’un ensemble”.
What does détail mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedetail (something small enough to escape casual notice, or a profusion of details)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Chacune des parties qui concourent à la composition et à la formation d’un ensemble. 2. Énumération des circonstances et des particularités d’un événement, d’une affaire. 3. Ces circonstances, ces particularités mêmes. 4. Partie particulièrement remarquable d’un ensemble.
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 détail
- détails plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce détail?
- /de.taj/
- \de.taj\
- [lə de.taj]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to détail
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is détail in French?
détail appears 38 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).