variante
French, noun/va.ʁjɑ̃t/
variante is spelled V-A-R-I-A-N-T-E (8 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written French, the 11,729th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Variante is a French feminine noun meaning “variant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Version d’un même texte, d’une histoire, d’un mot, d’une lettre”.
What does variante mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininevariant
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Version d’un même texte, d’une histoire, d’un mot, d’une lettre. 2. Ce qui diffère d'une autre chose presque semblable. 3. Manière de jouer à un jeu donné avec des règles différentes de celles du jeu habituel. 4. Suite de coups possibles, dans un jeu, à partir d’une position donnée.
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 variante
- variantes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce variante?
- /va.ʁjɑ̃t/
- \va.ʁjɑ̃t\
- [va.ʁjɑ̃t]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to variante
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is variante in French?
variante appears 4.7 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).