tintement
French, noun/tɛ̃t.mɑ̃/
tintement is spelled T-I-N-T-E-M-E-N-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 60,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tintement is a French masculine noun meaning “chiming, tinkling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bruit d'une cloche que l'on fait tinter”.
What does tintement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechiming, tinkling
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bruit d'une cloche que l'on fait tinter. 2. Prolongement du son d’une cloche, diminuant dans l’air après que le coup a frappé. 3. Bruit d'un objet métallique. 4. Son imaginé et répété, évoqué par l'idée du bruit d'une chose métallique.
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 tintement
- tintements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tintement?
- /tɛ̃t.mɑ̃/
- \tɛ̃t.mɑ̃\
- [tɛ̃t.mɑ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tintement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tintement in French?
tintement appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).