abies
French, noun/a.bjɛs/
abies is spelled A-B-I-E-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 82,784th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abies is a French masculine noun meaning “a fir tree” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de la famille des Pinacées (Pinaceae) comprenant, non-exclusivement, des espèces vernaculairement…”.
What does abies mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicmasculinea fir tree
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre de la famille des Pinacées (Pinaceae) comprenant, non-exclusivement, des espèces vernaculairement appelées sapin.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de abies.
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 abies
- abiès alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce abies?
- /a.bjɛs/
- \a.bjɛs\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to abies
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abies in French?
abies appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).