tweet
French, noun/twit/
tweet is spelled T-W-E-E-T (5 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written French, the 6,701st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tweet is a French masculine noun meaning “tweet (Twitter post)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Message court – limité à l'origine à 140 caractères et aujourd'hui à 280 – publié sur le service Twitter”.
What does tweet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetweet (Twitter post)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Message court – limité à l'origine à 140 caractères et aujourd'hui à 280 – publié sur le service Twitter. 2. Message court publié sur le réseau social Bluesky. 3. Message court publié sur le réseau social Threads.
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 tweet
- tweets plural
- touite
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tweet?
- /twit/
- \twit\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tweet
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tweet in French?
tweet appears 10 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).