édit
French, noun/e.di/
édit is spelled É-D-I-T (4 letters) and appears 7.2 times per million words in written French, the 8,517th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Édit is a French masculine noun meaning “an edict, type of legislative and/or judicial proclamation, originally emanating from a Roman magistrate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ordonnance d’un magistrat, d’un empereur”.
What does édit mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinean edict, type of legislative and/or judicial proclamation, originally emanating from a Roman magistrate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ordonnance d’un magistrat, d’un empereur. 2. Ordonnance des rois de l’Ancien Régime, qui ne statuait que sur un seul point ou une seule matière.
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 édit
- édits plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce édit?
- /e.di/
- \e.di\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to édit
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is édit in French?
édit appears 7.2 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).