ossète
French, noun
ossète is spelled O-S-S-È-T-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 175,987th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ossète is a French masculine noun meaning “Ossetian” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ossète is a different word: “an Ossetian”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Langue appartenant au groupe iranien de la famille des langues indo-européennes, parlée dans le Caucase…”.
What does ossète mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Ossetian
noun
- 1
masculineOssetian
noun
- 1
femininemasculinean Ossetian
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif aux Ossètes ou à l’Ossétie. 2. Relatif à la langue parlée par les Ossètes.
noun: 1. Langue appartenant au groupe iranien de la famille des langues indo-européennes, parlée dans le Caucase, principalement en Ossétie du Nord, en Ossétie du Sud et en Géorgie.
noun: 1. Habitant d’Ossétie.
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 ossète
- Ossètes plural
- ossètes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ossète
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ossète in French?
ossète appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).