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archifaux

French, adjective/aʁ.ʃi.fo/

archifaux is a French adjective meaning “dead wrong, extremely wrong, completely untrue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Extrêmement faux”.

What does archifaux mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    colloquialdead wrong, extremely wrong, completely untrue

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

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Extrêmement faux.

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 archifaux

  • archifausse feminine
  • archifausses feminine plural
  • archi-faux alternative

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

How do you pronounce archifaux?

  • /aʁ.ʃi.fo/
  • \aʁ.ʃi.fo\

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

How common is archifaux in French?

archifaux appears about once in every 58 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).