grade
French, noun
grade is spelled G-R-A-D-E (5 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written French, the 6,701st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grade is a French masculine noun meaning “rank” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, gradé is a different word: “rank”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Degré de dignité, d'honneur dans une hiérarchie”.
What does grade mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerank
- 2
masculinegradian
adjective
- 1
NCO or officer
noun
- 1
masculinerank
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Degré de dignité, d'honneur dans une hiérarchie. 2. Degré dans la hiérarchie militaire. 3. Degré de la hiérarchie universitaire. 4. Degré de la hiérarchie dans la fonction publique.
adjective: 1. Qui a un des grades inférieurs de l’armée.
noun: 1. Militaire qui porte un grade de l'armée.
suffix: 1. Suffixe utilisé pour former des noms associés à une notion de marche.
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 grade
- grades plural
- gradée feminine
- gradés masculine plural
- gradées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is grade in French?
grade appears 10 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).