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pâtes

French, noun

pâtes is a French feminine noun meaning “pasta” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of pâte. With an accent, pâtés is a different word: “plural of pâté”.

What does pâtes mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineplural of pâte

  2. 2

    femininepasta

    J'aime manger des pâtes italiennes.

noun

as pâtés
  1. 1

    masculineplural of pâté

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

English words that translate to pâtes

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is pâtes in French?

pâtes appears 9.8 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).