pacte
French, noun/pakt/
pacte is spelled P-A-C-T-E (5 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,648th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pacte is a French masculine noun meaning “pact, deal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Convention accompagnée d’actes publics qui lui donnent un caractère d’une importance primordiale”.
What does pacte mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepact, deal
pacte avec le diable
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Convention accompagnée d’actes publics qui lui donnent un caractère d’une importance primordiale. 2. Alliance.
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 pacte
- pactes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pacte?
- /pakt/
- \pakt\
- [pakt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pacte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pacte in French?
pacte appears 13 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).