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idiolecte

French, noun/i.djɔ.lɛkt/

idiolecte is spelled I-D-I-O-L-E-C-T-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 65 million words in written French, the 253,038th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Idiolecte is a French masculine noun meaning “idiolect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Particularité langagière propre à un individu donné”.

What does idiolecte mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineidiolect

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Particularité langagière propre à un individu donné.

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 idiolecte

  • idiolectes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce idiolecte?

  • /i.djɔ.lɛkt/
  • \i.djɔ.lɛkt\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to idiolecte

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is idiolecte in French?

idiolecte appears about once in every 65 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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