gentilé
French, noun/ʒɑ̃.ti.le/
gentilé is spelled G-E-N-T-I-L-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 104,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gentilé is a French masculine noun meaning “demonym” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom donné aux habitants d’un lieu, d’un pays, d’un continent, d’une région, d’une province, etc”.
What does gentilé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedemonym
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom donné aux habitants d’un lieu, d’un pays, d’un continent, d’une région, d’une province, etc.
adjective: 1. Qui a les caractéristiques d’un gentilé.
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 gentilé
- gentilés plural
- gentilée singular feminine
- gentilées plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gentilé?
- /ʒɑ̃.ti.le/
- \ʒɑ̃.ti.le\
- [ʒɑ̃.ti.le]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gentilé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gentilé in French?
gentilé appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).