quarante
French, number/ka.ʁɑ̃t/
quarante is spelled Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-E (8 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written French, the 4,136th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quarante is a French number meaning “forty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does quarante mean in English?
number
- 1
forty
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Trente-neuf plus un, soit quatre fois dix, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 40. 2. Quarantième. 3. Les quarante de l’Académie française ou, elliptiquement, les quarante, les membres de l’Académie française.
noun: 1. Nombre 40, entier naturel après trente-neuf. 2. Chose portant le numéro 40.
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 do you pronounce quarante?
- /ka.ʁɑ̃t/
- \ka.ʁɑ̃t\
- [ka.ʁɑ̃t]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to quarante
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quarante in French?
quarante appears 18 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).