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archi

French, noun/aʁ.ʃi/

archi is a French feminine noun meaning “architecture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Architecture, en tant que domaine d’activité ou d’étude”.

What does archi mean in English?

adverb

  1. 1

    slangvery; super

    J'suis archi fatiguée.

noun

  1. 1

    feminineinformalarchitecture

    un étudiant en archi

prefix

as archi-
  1. 1

    arch- (used for intensiveness), ultra-

  2. 2

    colloquialdead (extremely)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

prefix: 1. Préfixe qui sert à marquer la prééminence, la supériorité. 2. Marque la grandeur, la multitude. 3. Marque l’excès dans la chose dont on parle.

noun: 1. Architecture, en tant que domaine d’activité ou d’étude. 2. Gadz’Arts plus ancien qu’un autre.

adverb: 1. Forme quasi superlative de l’adverbe très.

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 archi

  • arch-
  • archis plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce archi?

  • /aʁ.ʃi/
  • \aʁ.ʃi\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to archi

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is archi in French?

archi appears 2.8 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).