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localité

French, noun/lɔ.ka.li.te/

localité is spelled L-O-C-A-L-I-T-É (8 letters) and appears 6.9 times per million words in written French, the 8,831st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Localité is a French feminine noun meaning “place, locality” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lieu habité”.

What does localité mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineplace, locality

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Lieu habité. 2. Petite ville, village, etc. 3. Particularité ou circonstance locale : lieu, milieu.

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 localité

  • localités plural

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

How do you pronounce localité?

  • /lɔ.ka.li.te/
  • \lɔ.ka.li.te\
  • [yn lɔ.ka.li.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 localité

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

How common is localité in French?

localité appears 6.9 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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