félicité
French, noun
félicité is spelled F-É-L-I-C-I-T-É (8 letters) and appears 5.8 times per million words in written French, the 10,141st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Félicité is a French feminine noun meaning “bliss, happiness, felicity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of féliciter. With an accent, félicite is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Béatitude ; grand bonheur”.
What does félicité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebliss, happiness, felicity
Near-synonym: bonheur
verb
- 1
past participle of féliciter
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Béatitude ; grand bonheur.
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 félicité
- félicités plural
- félicitée feminine
- félicitées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to félicité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is félicité in French?
félicité appears 5.8 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).