prélat
French, noun/pʁe.la/
prélat is spelled P-R-É-L-A-T (6 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prélat is a French masculine noun meaning “prelate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui a une dignité considérable dans l’Église, avec juridiction spirituelle ou, jadis, temporelle”.
What does prélat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprelate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui a une dignité considérable dans l’Église, avec juridiction spirituelle ou, jadis, temporelle. 2. Ecclésiastique qui a droit de porter le violet, à la cour de Rome.
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 prélat
- prélats plural
- prælate alternative obsolete
- prélatesse feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prélat?
- /pʁe.la/
- \pʁe.la\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to prélat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prélat in French?
prélat appears 2.0 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).