tempête
French, noun
tempête is spelled T-E-M-P-Ê-T-E (7 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 3,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tempête is a French feminine noun meaning “storm, tempest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, tempêté is a different word: “past participle of tempêter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tourmente atmosphérique, violente agitation de l’air, souvent accompagnée de pluie, de neige, de grêle…”.
What does tempête mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininestorm, tempest
verb
- 1
past participle of tempêter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tourmente atmosphérique, violente agitation de l’air, souvent accompagnée de pluie, de neige, de grêle, d’éclairs, de tonnerre, etc. 2. Tourmentes furieuses sur la mer, qui soulèvent les flots. 3. Violente agitation, tourmente politique, mouvement dirigé contre quelqu’un pour le perdre, pour l’accabler. 4. Violente et bruyante explosion.
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 tempête
- tempêtes plural
- tempêtée feminine
- tempêtés masculine plural
- tempêtées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tempête
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tempête in French?
tempête appears 19 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).