écarté
French, noun
écarté is spelled É-C-A-R-T-É (6 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written French, the 11,545th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écarté is a French masculine noun meaning “écarté” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of écarter. With an accent, écarte is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jeu de cartes qui se joue à deux et où l’on peut écarter tout ou partie des cartes”.
What does écarté mean in English?
adjective
- 1
discarded, removed
- 2
separated
- 3
isolated, secluded
- 4
back(ward), far from the main area
- 5
stray
noun
- 1
masculineécarté
verb
- 1
past participle of écarter
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Jeu de cartes qui se joue à deux et où l’on peut écarter tout ou partie des cartes.
adjective: 1. Se trouvant à l'écart. 2. Égaré, perdu, introuvable.
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 écarté
- écartée feminine
- écartés masculine plural
- écartées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to écarté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is écarté in French?
écarté appears 4.8 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).