franco
/ˈfɹæŋ.koʊ/noun
franco is a noun meaning “A former currency of Lucca in Tuscany, Italy, issued between 1805 and 1808” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-N-C-O and has 2 syllables, and it appears 5.4 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of franco is francos.
What does franco mean?
noun
- 1
A former currency of Lucca in Tuscany, Italy, issued between 1805 and 1808.
- 2
The CFA franc as used in Equatorial Guinea, worth 4 ekwele.
- 3
Alternative letter-case form of Franco (“French person”).
noun
- 1
A French person.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce franco?
- /ˈfɹæŋ.koʊ/
- /ˈfɹæŋˌkoʊ/
- /ˈfɹɑːŋ-/
Franco has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of franco
- francos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is franco?
Franco appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th 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).
Franco in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relating to France or French:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | franco- |
| German | Französisch- |
| Portuguese | franco- |
| Spanish | franco- |
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 franco come from?
From Italian franco (“French”). Doublet of franc and frank.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).