légèreté
French, noun/le.ʒɛʁ.te/
légèreté is spelled L-É-G-È-R-E-T-É (8 letters) and appears 4.4 times per million words in written French, the 12,326th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Légèreté is a French feminine noun meaning “lightness (lack of mass), levity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualité de ce qui est léger, peu pesant”.
What does légèreté mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininelightness (lack of mass), levity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Qualité de ce qui est léger, peu pesant. 2. Agilité. 3. Agrément, facilité de l’esprit ou du style. 4. Inconstance ; instabilité.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de légèreté.
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 légèreté
- légèretés plural
- légéretés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce légèreté?
- /le.ʒɛʁ.te/
- \le.ʒɛʁ.te\
- \le.ʒeʁ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to légèreté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is légèreté in French?
légèreté appears 4.4 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).