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frenched

verb, adjective

frenched is a verb meaning “simple past and past participle of french” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-N-C-H-E-D, and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does frenched mean?

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of french (a form of french)

adjective

as Frenched
  1. 1

    Pertaining to servings of meat that have stylishly exposed bone protruding from them (meat with bones that have been French trimmed)

verb

as Frenched
  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of French (a form of French)

adjective

  1. 1

    Alternative form of Frenched.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce frenched?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-frenched.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of frenched

  • more frenched comparative
  • most frenched superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is frenched?

Frenched appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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).