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style

French, noun

style is spelled S-T-Y-L-E (5 letters) and appears 95 times per million words in written French, the 871st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Style is a French masculine noun meaning “style (manner of doing something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, stylé is a different word: “elegant, stylish”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Filament reliant l’ovaire au stigmate, au centre de la fleur”.

What does style mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinestyle (manner of doing something)

  2. 2

    masculinestyle (of a flower)

  3. 3

    masculinefashion, trend, style

  4. 4

    colloquialmasculinestyle (personal comportment)

  5. 5

    masculineflair

  6. 6

    masculinestyle; method characteristic of an artist; artistic manner or characteristic by which an artistic movement may be defined

  7. 7

    masculinegnomon, style (needle of a sundial)

  8. 8

    datedmasculinestylus, style (implement for writing on tablets)

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepillar, column

suffix

as -style
  1. 1

    -style

adjective

as stylé
  1. 1

    elegant, stylish

verb

as stylé
  1. 1

    past participle of styler

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Filament reliant l’ovaire au stigmate, au centre de la fleur. 2. Sorte de poinçon ou de grosse aiguille, avec la pointe de laquelle les anciens écrivaient sur des tablettes enduites de cire. 3. Aiguille d’un cadran solaire. 4. Manière d'exprimer par écrit les pensées.

adverb: 1. Tic de langage permettant d’illustrer un propos.

adjective: 1. Élégant, classe, cool.

suffix: 1. Relatif à la colonne.

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 style

  • styles plural
  • stile alternative obsolete
  • stylée feminine
  • stylés masculine plural
  • stylées feminine plural
  • staÿle

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to style

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is style in French?

style appears 95 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).

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