magnat
French, noun
magnat is spelled M-A-G-N-A-T (6 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 27,734th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Magnat is a French masculine noun meaning “magnate, tycoon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, magnât is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of magner”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Grand du royaume, dans l’ancienne Pologne et l’ancienne Hongrie”.
What does magnat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemagnate, tycoon
verb
- 1
third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of magner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Grand du royaume, dans l’ancienne Pologne et l’ancienne Hongrie. 2. Personne dominante ou importante ; VIP.
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 magnat
- magnats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to magnat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is magnat in French?
magnat 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).