ethnicité
French, noun/ɛt.ni.si.te/
ethnicité is spelled E-T-H-N-I-C-I-T-É (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 52,567th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ethnicité is a French feminine noun meaning “ethnicity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Caractère de ce qui est ethnique”.
What does ethnicité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineethnicity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Caractère de ce qui est ethnique. 2. Appartenance à une ethnie particulière, origine ethnique.
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 ethnicité
- ethnicités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ethnicité?
- /ɛt.ni.si.te/
- \ɛt.ni.si.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 ethnicité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ethnicité in French?
ethnicité appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).