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élégance

French, noun/e.le.ɡɑ̃s/

élégance is spelled É-L-É-G-A-N-C-E (8 letters) and appears 7.2 times per million words in written French, the 8,517th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Élégance is a French feminine noun meaning “elegance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Grâce des formes qui se manifeste dans les productions de la nature et de l’art”.

What does élégance mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineelegance

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Grâce des formes qui se manifeste dans les productions de la nature et de l’art. 2. Certaine distinction dans l’habillement et dans les manières. 3. Choix de mots et de tours, d’où résultent la grâce et la facilité du langage ou du style. 4. Simplicité, beauté, économie de moyens, en parlant de la solution d’un problème mathématique ou scientifique.

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 élégance

  • élégances plural

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

How do you pronounce élégance?

  • /e.le.ɡɑ̃s/
  • \e.le.ɡɑ̃s\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to élégance

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

How common is élégance in French?

élégance 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).

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