isolement
French, noun
isolement is spelled I-S-O-L-E-M-E-N-T (9 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written French, the 7,421st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Isolement is a French masculine noun meaning “isolation (detachment, exclusion)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, isolément is a different word: “isolatedly, individually, separately”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d'isoler, de mettre à part”.
What does isolement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineisolation (detachment, exclusion)
isolement social
- 2
masculineisolation (separation of a patient)
adverb
- 1
isolatedly, individually, separately
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d'isoler, de mettre à part. 2. État d’une personne qui vit isolée. 3. État de ce qui est isolé. 4. Distance entre deux parties de construction qui ne se touchent pas.
adverb: 1. D’une manière isolée. 2. À part, séparément.
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 isolement
- isolements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to isolement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is isolement in French?
isolement appears 8.7 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).