penalties
French, noun
penalties is spelled P-E-N-A-L-T-I-E-S (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 47,227th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Penalties is a French masculine noun meaning “plural of penalty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, pénalties is a different word: “plural of pénalty”.
What does penalties mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplural of penalty
noun
- 1
plural of pénalty
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de penalties.
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.
How common is penalties in French?
penalties appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).