tacet
French, noun\ta.sɛt\
tacet is spelled T-A-C-E-T (5 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written French, the 279,127th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tacet is a French masculine noun meaning “silent part in music” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Silence d’une partie pendant que les autres jouent ou chantent”.
What does tacet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesilent part in music
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Silence d’une partie pendant que les autres jouent ou chantent. 2. Dans un agenda de concert, mot par lequel on signale les absences de spectacle lors des jours de relâche de l'orchestre.
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 tacet
- tacets plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tacet?
- \ta.sɛt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tacet in French?
tacet appears about once in every 79 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).