insuccès
French, noun/ɛ̃.syk.sɛ/
insuccès is spelled I-N-S-U-C-C-È-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,148th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Insuccès is a French masculine noun meaning “failure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Défaut de succès”.
What does insuccès mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefailure
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Défaut de succès.
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.
How do you pronounce insuccès?
- /ɛ̃.syk.sɛ/
- \ɛ̃.syk.sɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is insuccès in French?
insuccès appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).