droiture
French, noun/dʁwa.tyʁ/
droiture is spelled D-R-O-I-T-U-R-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 31,863rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Droiture is a French feminine noun meaning “rectitude, uprightness, honesty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Disposition à se conduire, à se comporter toujours conformément aux règles du devoir, ou le fait de se…”.
What does droiture mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininerectitude, uprightness, honesty
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Disposition à se conduire, à se comporter toujours conformément aux règles du devoir, ou le fait de se comporter ainsi. 2. Pour un navire, aller en droiture ou faire sa route en droiture, c’est aller à sa destination sans escale, ni relâche.
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 droiture
- droitures plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce droiture?
- /dʁwa.tyʁ/
- \dʁwa.tyʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to droiture
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is droiture in French?
droiture appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).