framboise
/fɹɑmˈbwɑz/noun
framboise is a noun meaning “Raspberry liqueur” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-M-B-O-I-S-E, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of framboise is framboises.
What does framboise mean?
noun
- 1
Raspberry liqueur.
- 2
A Belgian beer made by fermenting lambic with raspberry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce framboise?
- /fɹɑmˈbwɑz/
- /fɹæm-/
- /-ˈbwɑ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-framboise.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of framboise
- framboises plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is framboise?
Framboise appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Framboise in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense traditional Belgian beer:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | framboise |
| German | Framboise |
| Spanish | framboise |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does framboise come from?
Borrowed from French framboise (“raspberry”). Doublet of bramberry and frambesia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).