sauna
French, noun\so.na\
sauna is spelled S-A-U-N-A (5 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written French, the 22,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sauna is a French masculine noun meaning “sauna” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pièce dans laquelle on prend un bain de chaleur”.
What does sauna mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesauna
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pièce dans laquelle on prend un bain de chaleur. 2. Établissement qui propose des bains de chaleur sèche ou humide, des bains dans des jacuzzis. 3. Établissement avec des installations semblables à celles d’un sauna ou spa typique, mais qui sert à faciliter des rencontres sexuelles, notamment entre hommes.
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 sauna
- saunas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sauna?
- \so.na\
- [so.na]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sauna
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sauna in French?
sauna appears 1.7 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).