performativité
French, noun/pɛʁ.fɔʁ.ma.ti.vi.te/
performativité is spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-V-I-T-É (14 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 139,724th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Performativité is a French feminine noun meaning “performativity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fait qu’un mot ou une expression constituent par eux-mêmes la chose qu’ils énoncent”.
What does performativité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineperformativity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fait qu’un mot ou une expression constituent par eux-mêmes la chose qu’ils énoncent.
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 performativité
- performativités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce performativité?
- /pɛʁ.fɔʁ.ma.ti.vi.te/
- \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.ma.ti.vi.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to performativité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is performativité in French?
performativité appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).