ventôse
French, noun/vɑ̃.toz/
ventôse is spelled V-E-N-T-Ô-S-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 51,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ventôse is a French masculine noun meaning “Ventôse (the sixth month of the French Republican Calendar)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sixième mois du calendrier républicain, commençant vers le 20 février”.
What does ventôse mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineVentôse (the sixth month of the French Republican Calendar)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sixième mois du calendrier républicain, commençant vers le 20 février.
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 ventôse
- ventôses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ventôse?
- /vɑ̃.toz/
- \vɑ̃.toz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ventôse in French?
ventôse appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).