onomatopée
French, noun/ɔ.nɔ.ma.tɔ.pe/
onomatopée is spelled O-N-O-M-A-T-O-P-É-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 63,613th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Onomatopée is a French feminine noun meaning “onomatopoeia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Formation d’un mot dont la prononciation imite un son”.
What does onomatopée mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineonomatopoeia
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Formation d’un mot dont la prononciation imite un son. 2. Mot imitatif lui-même, formé grâce à ce procédé, ou tournure expressive à base de syllabes dépourvues de sens. – Voir interjection.
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 onomatopée
- onomatopées plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce onomatopée?
- /ɔ.nɔ.ma.tɔ.pe/
- \ɔ.nɔ.ma.tɔ.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to onomatopée
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is onomatopée in French?
onomatopée appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).