qualité
French, noun/ka.li.te/
qualité is spelled Q-U-A-L-I-T-É (7 letters) and appears 132 times per million words in written French, the 628th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Qualité is a French feminine noun meaning “quality” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manière d’être, bonne ou mauvaise, grande ou petite, etc., de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un, état…”.
What does qualité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininequality
Bière de bonne qualité.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Manière d’être, bonne ou mauvaise, grande ou petite, etc., de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un, état, caractéristique. 2. Ce qui fait le mérite de quelqu’un, disposition bonne ou mauvaise. 3. Bonne qualité. 4. Noblesse.
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 qualité
- qualités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce qualité?
- /ka.li.te/
- \ka.li.te\
- [yn ka.li.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 qualité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is qualité in French?
qualité appears 132 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).