souhait
French, noun/swɛ/
souhait is spelled S-O-U-H-A-I-T (7 letters) and appears 9.3 times per million words in written French, the 7,048th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Souhait is a French masculine noun meaning “wish (desire; aspiration)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vœu, désir qu’une chose s’accomplisse”.
What does souhait mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewish (desire; aspiration)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vœu, désir qu’une chose s’accomplisse. 2. L'expression d'un tel désir, notamment en lien avec des notions d'accomplissement magique ou autrement surnaturel.
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 souhait
- souhaits plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce souhait?
- /swɛ/
- /su.ɛ/
- \swɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to souhait
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is souhait in French?
souhait appears 9.3 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).