whist
French, noun/wist/
whist is spelled W-H-I-S-T (5 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 100,007th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Whist is a French masculine noun meaning “whist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jeu de cartes à levées qui se joue à quatre”.
What does whist mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewhist
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Jeu de cartes à levées qui se joue à quatre. 2. Whist à la couleur.
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 whist
- whists plural
- wisth
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce whist?
- /wist/
- \wist\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to whist
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is whist in French?
whist appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).