adobe
French, noun/a.dɔb/
adobe is spelled A-D-O-B-E (5 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,000th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adobe is a French masculine noun meaning “adobe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Brique durcie au soleil, fabriquée à partir de terre argileuse mélangée à de la paille ou de l’herbe sèche…”.
What does adobe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineadobe
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Brique durcie au soleil, fabriquée à partir de terre argileuse mélangée à de la paille ou de l’herbe sèche hachée. 2. Matériau constitué par assemblage de briques de ce type.
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 adobe
- adobes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adobe?
- /a.dɔb/
- \a.dɔb\
- [a.dɔb]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adobe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adobe in French?
adobe appears 1.3 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).