sweat
French, noun/swɛt/
sweat is spelled S-W-E-A-T (5 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written French, the 17,096th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sweat is a French masculine noun meaning “sweatshirt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sweat-shirt”.
What does sweat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesweatshirt
Les sweats à capuche sont interdits dans certains lieux publics en Grande-Bretagne.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sweat-shirt.
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 sweat
- sweats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sweat?
- /swɛt/
- /swit/
- \swit\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sweat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sweat in French?
sweat appears 2.7 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).