internat
French, noun
internat is spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-A-T (8 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written French, the 14,223rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Internat is a French masculine noun meaning “boarding school” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, internât is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of interner”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État d’un élève qui loge dans son lieu d’enseignement”.
What does internat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineboarding school
- 2
masculineentrance examination (for residency)
- 3
masculineresidency (as a doctor), hospital training
verb
- 1
third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of interner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État d’un élève qui loge dans son lieu d’enseignement. 2. Ce lieu d’enseignement lui-même. 3. Fonction des internes dans un hôpital. 4. Concours que doivent subir les externes des hôpitaux pour devenir internes.
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 internat
- internats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is internat in French?
internat appears 3.5 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).