silhouette
French, noun
silhouette is spelled S-I-L-H-O-U-E-T-T-E (10 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written French, the 10,655th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Silhouette is a French feminine noun meaning “silhouette” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of silhouetter. With an accent, silhouetté is a different word: “past participle of silhouetter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sorte de dessin fait par un trait tracé autour de l’ombre du visage ou du corps”.
What does silhouette mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesilhouette
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of silhouetter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sorte de dessin fait par un trait tracé autour de l’ombre du visage ou du corps. 2. Apparence d’un corps, voire d’un objet, laissée par son contour. 3. Ligne qui dessine la forme du corps. 4. Profil caractéristique d’une ville ou d’un paysage, tel qu’il se découpe sur le ciel.
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 silhouette
- silhouettes plural
- silhouettée feminine
- silhouettés masculine plural
- silhouettées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to silhouette
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is silhouette in French?
silhouette appears 5.4 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).