fatalité
French, noun/fa.ta.li.te/
fatalité is spelled F-A-T-A-L-I-T-É (8 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written French, the 17,650th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fatalité is a French feminine noun meaning “fatality” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Destinée inévitable”.
What does fatalité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefatality
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Destinée inévitable. 2. Nécessité qui résulte de la nature des choses. 3. Évènement fâcheux amené par un concours de circonstances qui ne peuvent être évitées.
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 fatalité
- fatalités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fatalité?
- /fa.ta.li.te/
- \fa.ta.li.te\
- [fa.ta.li.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fatalité in French?
fatalité appears 2.6 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).