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module

French, noun

module is spelled M-O-D-U-L-E (6 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written French, the 8,212th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Module is a French masculine noun meaning “module” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, modulé is a different word: “past participle of moduler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mesure arbitraire servant à établir les rapports de proportion entre toutes les parties d’un ouvrage…”.

What does module mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinemodule

verb

as modulé
  1. 1

    past participle of moduler

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Mesure arbitraire servant à établir les rapports de proportion entre toutes les parties d’un ouvrage d’architecture. 2. Tout ce qui sert à mesurer. 3. Diamètre comparatif d’une médaille par rapport à d’autres. 4. Sous-ensemble.

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 module

  • modules plural
  • modulée feminine
  • modulés masculine plural
  • modulées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to module

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is module in French?

module appears 7.6 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).

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