énormité
French, noun/e.nɔʁ.mi.te/
énormité is spelled É-N-O-R-M-I-T-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 41,708th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Énormité is a French feminine noun meaning “enormity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualité de ce qui est énorme”.
What does énormité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineenormity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Qualité de ce qui est énorme. 2. Gravité, atrocité, en parlant de crimes, de méfaits. 3. Actions honteuses ou atroces. 4. Opinions, paroles absurdes, extravagantes, odieuses, révoltantes.
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 énormité
- énormités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce énormité?
- /e.nɔʁ.mi.te/
- \e.nɔʁ.mi.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to énormité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is énormité in French?
énormité appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).