parenté
French, noun
parenté is spelled P-A-R-E-N-T-É (7 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written French, the 14,626th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Parenté is a French feminine noun meaning “kinship” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, parente is a different word: “female equivalent of parent”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relation de consanguinité ou d’alliance qui unit deux personnes entre elles”.
What does parenté mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininekinship
un lien de parenté
- 2
femininerelatives, kin
J'ai de la parenté en Beauce.
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of parent
noun
- 1
femininefemale equivalent of parent
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Femme qui a un lien de parenté avec une personne.
noun: 1. Relation de consanguinité ou d’alliance qui unit deux personnes entre elles. 2. Lignée commune. 3. Parentèle, famille élargie, ensemble des parents et alliés d’une personne. 4. Proximité entre deux êtres.
adjective: 1. Apparenté, qui a des liens de parenté avec.
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 parenté
- parentés plural
- parentes plural
- parent masculine
- parentée singular feminine
- parentées plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to parenté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is parenté in French?
parenté appears 3.4 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).