hostilité
French, noun/ɔs.ti.li.te/
hostilité is spelled H-O-S-T-I-L-I-T-É (9 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written French, the 11,545th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hostilité is a French feminine noun meaning “hostility” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Acte d’un ennemi ou état de guerre”.
What does hostilité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehostility
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acte d’un ennemi ou état de guerre. 2. Comportement d’inimitié ou d’opposition ; disposition hostile. 3. Sentiment d’animosité, déclaré ou dissimulé, qui incline une personne à l’agression.
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 hostilité
- hostilités plural
- ^((h muet))\ɔs.ti.li.te\ singular plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hostilité?
- /ɔs.ti.li.te/
- ^((h muet))\ɔs.ti.li.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 hostilité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hostilité in French?
hostilité appears 4.8 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).