enceinte
French, noun
enceinte is spelled E-N-C-E-I-N-T-E (8 letters) and appears 35 times per million words in written French, the 2,320th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enceinte is a French feminine noun meaning “enclosure, compound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of enceint. With an accent, enceinté is a different word: “past participle of enceinter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Clôture ou tout autre système qui délimite, enceint ou entoure un lieu, une agglomération”.
What does enceinte mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineenclosure, compound
- 2
feminineinterior
- 3
femininespeaker, amplifier
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of enceint
verb
- 1
femininefeminine singular of enceint
verb
- 1
past participle of enceinter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Clôture ou tout autre système qui délimite, enceint ou entoure un lieu, une agglomération. 2. Espace enceint. 3. Salle plus ou moins vaste, dans l’intérieur d’un édifice. 4. Enceinte acoustique.
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 enceinte
- enceintes plural
- enceintée feminine
- enceintés masculine plural
- enceintées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to enceinte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enceinte in French?
enceinte appears 35 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).