sanitaires
French, noun/sa.ni.tɛʁ/
sanitaires is spelled S-A-N-I-T-A-I-R-E-S (10 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written French, the 8,090th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sanitaires is a French masculine noun meaning “toilet block, sanitary facilities” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of sanitaire. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble des commodités relatives à l’hygiène (comme les lavabos, les toilettes…)”.
What does sanitaires mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetoilet block, sanitary facilities
adjective
- 1
plural of sanitaire
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ensemble des commodités relatives à l’hygiène (comme les lavabos, les toilettes…).
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 sanitaires?
- /sa.ni.tɛʁ/
- \sa.ni.tɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sanitaires in French?
sanitaires appears 7.8 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).