traître
French, noun
traître is spelled T-R-A-Î-T-R-E (7 letters) and appears 4.9 times per million words in written French, the 11,366th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Traître is a French masculine noun meaning “betrayer, traitor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, traitre is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of traître”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui trahit”.
What does traître mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebetrayer, traitor
adjective
- 1
treacherous
noun
- 1
masculinepost-1990 spelling of traître
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qui trahit.
adjective: 1. Qui trahit, qui est capable de trahison. 2. Qualifie quelques animaux, comme des chiens, des chats, des chevaux, qui mordent, qui égratignent, qui ruent lorsqu’on y pense le moins. 3. Qualifie des actes qui marquent de la trahison, de la perfidie. 4. Qualifie certaines choses qui trompent, qui sont plus dangereuses qu’elles ne le paraissent.
noun: 1. Celui qui trahit.
adjective: 1. Variante orthographique de traître.
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 traître
- traîtres plural
- traîtresse feminine
- traitre alternative
- traîtresses feminine plural
- traitres plural
- traitresse feminine
- traître
- traitresses plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to traître
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is traître in French?
traître appears 4.9 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).