sextant
French, noun/sɛk.stɑ̃/
sextant is spelled S-E-X-T-A-N-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 68,913th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sextant is a French masculine noun meaning “sextant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sixième partie d’un cercle, arc de soixante degrés”.
What does sextant mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesextant
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sixième partie d’un cercle, arc de soixante degrés. 2. Instrument permettant de relever la hauteur angulaire d’un astre au-dessus de l’horizon et de déterminer par calcul la latitude.
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 sextant
- sextants plural
- sextan obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sextant?
- /sɛk.stɑ̃/
- \sɛk.stɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sextant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sextant in French?
sextant appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).