unité
French, noun/y.ni.te/
unité is spelled U-N-I-T-É (5 letters) and appears 59 times per million words in written French, the 1,419th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unité is a French feminine noun meaning “unity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Élément singulier, qui a le nombre un”.
What does unité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineunity
- 2
feminineunit
- 3
feminineones (in arithmetic)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Élément singulier, qui a le nombre un. 2. Quantité élémentaire qui est à la base d’un calcul. 3. Grandeur finie, choisie arbitrairement pour servir de terme de comparaison aux autres grandeurs de même espèce. 4. Caractère de ce qui est singulier, par opposition à pluralité.
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 unité
- unités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce unité?
- /y.ni.te/
- \y.ni.te\
- [y.n‿y.ni.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to unité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is unité in French?
unité appears 59 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).