faîte
French, noun
faîte is spelled F-A-Î-T-E (5 letters) and appears 85 times per million words in written French, the 982nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Faîte is a French masculine noun meaning “top, summit, pinnacle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, faite is a different word: “feminine singular of fait”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Comble, partie la plus élevée d’un bâtiment, d’un édifice”.
What does faîte mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetop, summit, pinnacle
verb
- 1
femininefeminine singular of fait
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Comble, partie la plus élevée d’un bâtiment, d’un édifice. 2. Arête du toit. 3. Sommet de certaines choses qui ont de l’élévation. 4. Point culminant, apogée.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de faîte.
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 faîte
- faîtes plural
- faite
- faites plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to faîte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is faîte in French?
faîte appears 85 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).