textile
French, noun/tɛk.stil/
textile is spelled T-E-X-T-I-L-E (7 letters) and appears 6.3 times per million words in written French, the 9,451st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Textile is a French masculine noun meaning “textile, fabric” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Matériau issu du filage puis du tissage de fibres ou de feutre, destiné entre autres à l’habillement ou à…”.
What does textile mean in English?
adjective
- 1
able to be made into textiles; fibrous
- 2
textile
noun
- 1
masculinetextile, fabric
- 2
masculinetextile, non-nudist
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui peut être divisé en fils propres à faire un tissu. 2. Relatif aux tissus, à leur fabrication, à leur industrie.
noun: 1. Matériau issu du filage puis du tissage de fibres ou de feutre, destiné entre autres à l’habillement ou à l'ameublement et la décoration. 2. Industrie de ces matériaux. 3. Personne non naturiste, ou non nudiste.
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 textile
- textiles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce textile?
- /tɛk.stil/
- \tɛks.til\
- [tɛks.til]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to textile
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is textile in French?
textile appears 6.3 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).