ghetto
French, noun/ɡɛ.to/
ghetto is spelled G-H-E-T-T-O (6 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written French, the 13,339th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ghetto is a French masculine noun meaning “ghetto” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Quartier juif”.
What does ghetto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineghetto
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Quartier juif. 2. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, quartier où les Nazis regroupaient les Juifs, souvent avant de les exterminer. 3. Quartier dans lequel se trouve une forte concentration d’une minorité ethnique, culturelle, ou religieuse, par choix ou par contrainte, avec une connotation de difficulté et de ségrégation sociale, voire de réclusion, dans un environnement urbain généralement dégradé. 4. État ou lieu d'isolement, de mise à l’écart, dont il est difficile de sortir.
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 ghetto
- ghettos plural
- ghetti plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ghetto?
- /ɡɛ.to/
- /ɡe.to/
- \ɡɛ.to\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ghetto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ghetto in French?
ghetto appears 3.9 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).