sympathie
French, noun/sɛ̃.pa.ti/
sympathie is spelled S-Y-M-P-A-T-H-I-E (9 letters) and appears 7.2 times per million words in written French, the 8,517th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sympathie is a French feminine noun meaning “sympathy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Penchant instinctif qui attire des personnes les unes vers les autres”.
What does sympathie mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesympathy
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Penchant instinctif qui attire des personnes les unes vers les autres. 2. L’accord avec le sentiment d’autrui, le pouvoir que nous avons de participer aux peines et aux plaisirs les uns des autres. Syn. : empathie 3. Bienveillance. 4. Concordance ou correspondance de certaines choses entre elles.
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 sympathie
- sympathies plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sympathie?
- /sɛ̃.pa.ti/
- \sɛ̃.pa.ti\
- [sɛ̃.pa.ti]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sympathie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sympathie in French?
sympathie appears 7.2 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).