gaîté
French, noun
gaîté is spelled G-A-Î-T-É (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 33,160th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gaîté is a French feminine noun meaning “gaiety, merriment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, gaité is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of gaieté”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Belle humeur”.
What does gaîté mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegaiety, merriment
noun
- 1
femininepost-1990 spelling of gaieté
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Belle humeur. 2. Vivacité, en parlant d’un cheval. 3. Paroles ou actions gaies ou folâtres.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de gaîté et de gaieté.
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 gaîté
- gaités plural
- gaîtés plural
- gaieté alternative
- gaité alternative
- gaîté
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is gaîté in French?
gaîté appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).