rapt
French, noun/ʁapt/
rapt is spelled R-A-P-T (4 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rapt is a French masculine noun meaning “kidnapping, abduction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enlèvement, par violence ou par séduction, d’une personne, et spécialement d’une jeune fille, d’une femme…”.
What does rapt mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinekidnapping, abduction
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Enlèvement, par violence ou par séduction, d’une personne, et spécialement d’une jeune fille, d’une femme mariée, d’une religieuse, ou encore d’un enfant.
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 rapt
- rapts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rapt?
- /ʁapt/
- \ʁapt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rapt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rapt in French?
rapt appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).