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talent

French, noun/ta.lɑ̃/

talent is a French masculine noun meaning “a talent (an obsolete unit of weight or money)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Poids du lingot, variable selon les pays”.

What does talent mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinea talent (an obsolete unit of weight or money)

  2. 2

    masculinea talent, a gift, a knack

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Poids du lingot, variable selon les pays. 2. Monnaie de compte indexée sur le poids du lingot. 3. Capacité, habileté, aptitude naturelle ou acquise, supériorité dans un art, un métier, etc. 4. Personne qui possède un don.

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 talent

  • talents plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce talent?

  • /ta.lɑ̃/
  • \ta.lɑ̃\
  • [ta.lɑ̃]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to talent

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

How common is talent in French?

talent appears 35 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).