entr'acte
French, noun/ɑ̃.tʁ‿akt/
entr'acte is spelled E-N-T-R-A-C-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 130,697th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entr'acte is a French masculine noun meaning “dated spelling of entracte” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Autre orthographe de entracte”.
What does entr'acte mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedated spelling of entracte
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Autre orthographe de entracte.
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 entr'acte
- entr'actes plural
- entr’actes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce entr'acte?
- /ɑ̃.tʁ‿akt/
- \ɑ̃.tʁakt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to entr'acte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is entr'acte in French?
entr'acte appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).