trident
French, noun/tʁi.dɑ̃/
trident is spelled T-R-I-D-E-N-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trident is a French masculine noun meaning “trident” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fourche à trois dents, à trois pointes, que les poètes et les peintres donnent pour sceptre à Neptune”.
What does trident mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetrident
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fourche à trois dents, à trois pointes, que les poètes et les peintres donnent pour sceptre à Neptune. 2. Simple fourche à trois dents pour manipuler les foins. 3. Harpon à trois pointes, avec laquelle on perce les poissons qu’on voit au fond de l’eau.
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 trident
- tridents plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trident?
- /tʁi.dɑ̃/
- \tʁi.dɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to trident
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trident in French?
trident appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).