alpine
French, adjective/al.pin/
alpine is spelled A-L-P-I-N-E (6 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written French, the 22,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alpine is a French feminine adjective meaning “feminine singular of alpin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does alpine mean in English?
adjective
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femininefeminine singular of alpin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Chèvre alpine. 2. Synonyme de préalpes du Sud, race de mouton. 3. Espèce (Malacosoma alpicola) de papillon de la famille Lasiocampidae.
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 alpine
- alpines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alpine?
- /al.pin/
- \al.pin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is alpine in French?
alpine appears 1.7 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).