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écossais

French, noun

écossais is spelled É-C-O-S-S-A-I-S (8 letters) and appears 7.4 times per million words in written French, the 8,354th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écossais is a French masculine noun meaning “Scottish Gaelic language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of écosser. With a capital, Écossais is a different word: “Scotsman”. On this page, Ecossais is a different word: “alternative form of Écossais”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Langue celtique parlée en Écosse”.

What does écossais mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    Scottish

noun

  1. 1

    masculineScottish Gaelic language

  2. 2

    masculineScots language

verb

  1. 1

    first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of écosser

noun

as Écossais
  1. 1

    masculineScotsman

noun

as Ecossais
  1. 1

    masculinealternative form of Écossais

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Relatif à l’Écosse ou à ses habitants. 2. Se dit de certains tissus à carreaux de différentes couleurs.

noun: 1. Langue celtique parlée en Écosse. 2. Tissu de type écossais.

noun: 1. Quelqu’un originaire d’Écosse ou habitant en Écosse. 2. Peuple celte qui vit essentiellement en Écosse.

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 écossais

  • écossaise feminine
  • écossaises feminine plural
  • Écossaise feminine
  • Ecossais alternative
  • Ecossaise feminine

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to écossais

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is écossais in French?

écossais appears 7.4 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).

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