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transit

French, noun

transit is spelled T-R-A-N-S-I-T (7 letters) and appears 6.3 times per million words in written French, the 9,451st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Transit is a French masculine noun meaning “transit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of transir. With an accent, transît is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of transir”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fait de traverser une ville, une région, ou un pays sans s’y arrêter”.

What does transit mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetransit

    en transit

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    third-person singular past historic

verb

as transît
  1. 1

    third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of transir

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Faculté de faire passer des marchandises, des denrées par le territoire d’un État, d’une commune, sans payer les droits de douane ou d’octroi, à condition qu’elles ne fassent que traverser ce territoire. 2. Fait de traverser une ville, une région, ou un pays sans s’y arrêter. 3. Passage d’un objet céleste entre un observateur et un autre objet céleste. 4. Passage d’une planète dans le zodiaque au point où s'était trouvé auparavant un autre astre, ou bien elle-même.

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 transit

  • transits plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to transit

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is transit in French?

transit 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).

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