twist
French, noun/twist/
twist is spelled T-W-I-S-T (5 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Twist is a French masculine noun meaning “twist (dance)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Type de chanson et de danse des années 1960”.
What does twist mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetwist (dance)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Type de chanson et de danse des années 1960. 2. Cocktail à base de bière et de sirop de citron. 3. Synonyme de twist final, révélation en principe inattendue apportée à la fin d’une œuvre (ou parfois avant la fin) de fiction, notamment un film de cinéma, censée provoquer la surprise du spectateur ou du lecteur en jetant un nouvel éclairage sur l’histoire.
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 twist
- twists plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce twist?
- /twist/
- \twist\
- [twist]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to twist
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is twist in French?
twist appears 2.0 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).