impact
French, noun/ɛ̃.pakt/
impact is spelled I-M-P-A-C-T (6 letters) and appears 46 times per million words in written French, the 1,809th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Impact is a French masculine noun meaning “impact” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Choc d’un projectile contre un corps”.
What does impact mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineimpact
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Choc d’un projectile contre un corps. 2. Effet violent ; vive répercussion.
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 impact
- impacts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce impact?
- /ɛ̃.pakt/
- \ɛ̃.pakt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to impact
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is impact in French?
impact appears 46 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).