mistral
French, noun/mis.tʁal/
mistral is a French masculine noun meaning “mistral” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vent froid, sec et souvent violent, qui souffle du nord dans la vallée du Rhône et les zones adjacentes du…”.
What does mistral mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemistral
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vent froid, sec et souvent violent, qui souffle du nord dans la vallée du Rhône et les zones adjacentes du Midi de la France. 2. Officier qui regroupait les fonctions de percepteur et de juge pour le compte du seigneur local, dans la Savoie et le Dauphiné du Moyen Âge.
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 mistral
- mistrals plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mistral?
- /mis.tʁal/
- \mis.tʁal\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mistral
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mistral in French?
mistral appears 3.2 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).