schéma
French, noun/ʃe.ma/
schéma is spelled S-C-H-É-M-A (6 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,331st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schéma is a French masculine noun meaning “schema” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tracé figurant d’une façon simplifiée la disposition d’un bâtiment, d’un appareil, d’un organe, etc. Plan…”.
What does schéma mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineschema
- 2
masculinemodel, pattern, scheme
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tracé figurant d’une façon simplifiée la disposition d’un bâtiment, d’un appareil, d’un organe, etc. Plan d’un ouvrage de l’esprit ou d’une entreprise, réduit à ses traits essentiels. 2. Description de la structure d’une base de données : noms des tables, de leurs colonnes, et types des champs. 3. Langage définissant la structure d’un document structuré, comme XML ou RDF. 4. Représentation sommaire, en position approximative, de la topographie ou de phénomènes géographiques.
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 schéma
- schémas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce schéma?
- /ʃe.ma/
- \ʃe.ma\
- [ʃe.ma]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to schéma
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schéma in French?
schéma appears 13 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).