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insulte

French, noun

insulte is spelled I-N-S-U-L-T-E (7 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,230th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Insulte is a French feminine noun meaning “insult” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of insulter. With an accent, insulté is a different word: “insulted”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Outrage, de fait ou de parole, avec dessein prémédité d’offenser”.

What does insulte mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineinsult

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

adjective

as insulté
  1. 1

    insulted

verb

as insulté
  1. 1

    past participle of insulter

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Outrage, de fait ou de parole, avec dessein prémédité d’offenser. 2. Paroles ou propos destinés habituellement à cet usage.

noun: 1. Personne qui a été insultée.

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 insulte

  • insultes plural
  • insultée feminine
  • insultés masculine plural
  • insultées feminine plural

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

English words that translate to insulte

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

How common is insulte in French?

insulte appears 14 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).

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