dialecte
French, noun/dja.lɛkt/
dialecte is spelled D-I-A-L-E-C-T-E (8 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written French, the 17,365th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dialecte is a French masculine noun meaning “language socially subordinate to a regional or national standard language, often historically cognate to the standard, but not a variety of…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Proche parent d’une langue dominante ou officielle mais qui s’en distingue et qui, avec cette langue…”.
What does dialecte mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelanguage socially subordinate to a regional or national standard language, often historically cognate to the standard, but not a variety of it or in any other sense derived from it
- 2
colloquialmasculinedialect
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Proche parent d’une langue dominante ou officielle mais qui s’en distingue et qui, avec cette langue dominante, étaient autrefois variétés régionales l’une de l’autre. 2. Variété particulière d’une langue.
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 dialecte
- dialectes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dialecte?
- /dja.lɛkt/
- \dja.lɛkt\
- [dja.lɛkt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dialecte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dialecte in French?
dialecte appears 2.6 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).