fermeté
French, noun/fɛʁ.mə.te/
fermeté is spelled F-E-R-M-E-T-É (7 letters) and appears 4.3 times per million words in written French, the 12,541st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fermeté is a French feminine noun meaning “firmness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État de ce qui est ferme, difficile à ébranler, de ce qui ne chancelle point”.
What does fermeté mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefirmness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État de ce qui est ferme, difficile à ébranler, de ce qui ne chancelle point. 2. Qualité d’un corps solide, compact. 3. Vigueur, force. 4. Fermeté d’esprit, de jugement, se dit de la rectitude et de la solidité de l’esprit.
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 fermeté
- fermetés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fermeté?
- /fɛʁ.mə.te/
- \fɛʁ.mə.te\
- [fɛʁ.mə.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 fermeté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fermeté in French?
fermeté appears 4.3 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).