exécutant
French, noun/ɛɡ.ze.ky.tɑ̃/
exécutant is a French masculine noun meaning “performer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of exécuter. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui exécute les ordres donnés par une autorité”.
What does exécutant mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineperformer
- 2
masculineexecutor, one who carries out an action
verb
- 1
present participle of exécuter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui réalise une tâche.
noun: 1. Celui qui exécute les ordres donnés par une autorité. 2. Celui qui exécute sa partie dans un concert.
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 exécutant
- exécutants plural
- exécutante feminine
- exécutantes plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exécutant?
- /ɛɡ.ze.ky.tɑ̃/
- \ɛɡ.ze.ky.tɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to exécutant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exécutant in French?
exécutant appears 1.2 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).