mécaniste
French, adjective/me.ka.nist/
mécaniste is spelled M-É-C-A-N-I-S-T-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 93,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mécaniste is a French adjective meaning “mechanistic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif au mécanisme”.
What does mécaniste mean in English?
adjective
- 1
mechanistic
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif au mécanisme. 2. Fondé sur un mécanisme.
noun: 1. Partisan du mécanisme.
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 mécaniste
- mécanistes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mécaniste?
- /me.ka.nist/
- \me.ka.nist\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mécaniste
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mécaniste in French?
mécaniste appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).