matité
French, noun\ma.ti.te\
matité is spelled M-A-T-I-T-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 152,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Matité is a French feminine noun meaning “mattness; paleness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualité de ce qui est mat”.
What does matité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemattness; paleness
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 mat. 2. État de ce qui est mat, particulièrement en parlant d’un son. 3. Abaissement de l’intensité et de la fréquence d’un son obtenu lors de la percussion d’une partie du corps.
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 matité
- matités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce matité?
- \ma.ti.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 matité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is matité in French?
matité appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).