médiocrité
French, noun/me.djɔ.kʁi.te/
médiocrité is spelled M-É-D-I-O-C-R-I-T-É (10 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written French, the 16,568th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Médiocrité is a French feminine noun meaning “mediocrity, middlingness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État ou qualité de ce qui est médiocre (moyen, peu important, peu digne d'être remarqué)”.
What does médiocrité mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicfemininemediocrity (quality of being intermediate between two extremes)
- 2
femininemediocrity, middlingness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État ou qualité de ce qui est médiocre (moyen, peu important, peu digne d'être remarqué). 2. Situation sociale, état de fortune intermédiaire entre la richesse et la pauvreté, entre la haute société et une condition petite-bourgeoise ou populaire. Situation sociale peu brillante. 3. Manque d'intelligence, de talent, de qualités personnelles. Insuffisance du côté de l’esprit ou du mérite. 4. De faible valeur, de mauvaise qualité, franchement mauvais. En ce sens, souvent employé comme euphémisme.
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 médiocrité
- médiocrités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce médiocrité?
- /me.djɔ.kʁi.te/
- \me.djɔ.kʁi.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 médiocrité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is médiocrité in French?
médiocrité appears 2.8 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).