isolat
French, noun
isolat is spelled I-S-O-L-A-T (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 104,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Isolat is a French masculine noun meaning “isolate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, isolât is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of isoler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chose qui n’appartient à aucun ensemble déterminé connu ou caractérisable”.
What does isolat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineisolate
verb
- 1
third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of isoler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Chose qui n’appartient à aucun ensemble déterminé connu ou caractérisable. 2. Langue non rattachée à une famille de langues. Par exemple, le basque, l’aïnou du Japon et le coréen sont des isolats. 3. Population d’animaux ou de plantes isolés sur une île.
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 isolat
- isolats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is isolat in French?
isolat appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).