quinzième
French, noun/kɛ̃.zjɛm/
quinzième is spelled Q-U-I-N-Z-I-È-M-E (9 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written French, the 20,080th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quinzième is a French masculine noun meaning “fifteenth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Élément ordinal, substantivé, correspondant au cardinal quinze”.
What does quinzième mean in English?
adjective
- 1
fifteenth
noun
- 1
masculinefifteenth
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui concerne l’ordinal de quinze.
noun: 1. Élément ordinal, substantivé, correspondant au cardinal quinze. 2. Chaque partie d’un tout qui est ou que l’on conçoit divisé en quinze parties égales. 3. Autre nom de la double octave, représentant un intervalle de quinze notes entre la fondamentale et la note la plus aiguë.
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 quinzième
- quinzièmes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quinzième?
- /kɛ̃.zjɛm/
- \kɛ̃.zjɛm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to quinzième
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quinzième in French?
quinzième appears 2.1 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).