machette
French, noun/ma.ʃɛt/
machette is spelled M-A-C-H-E-T-T-E (8 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 28,485th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Machette is a French feminine noun meaning “machete (a sword-like tool)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Long couteau muni d’une lame épaisse mesurant environ 40 centimètres de long et au manche court, servant…”.
What does machette mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemachete (a sword-like tool)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Long couteau muni d’une lame épaisse mesurant environ 40 centimètres de long et au manche court, servant généralement à se frayer un chemin dans les régions à végétation dense, à ouvrir des fruits à coque dure comme la noix de coco, à tailler les feuilles de palmier, etc., aussi utilisé comme arme blanche.
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 machette
- machettes plural
- matchette
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce machette?
- /ma.ʃɛt/
- \ma.ʃɛt\
- [ma.ʃɛt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to machette
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is machette in French?
machette appears 1.2 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).