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cadre

French, noun

cadre is spelled C-A-D-R-E (5 letters) and appears 129 times per million words in written French, the 647th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cadre is a French masculine noun meaning “frame (of a door or picture)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cadrer. With an accent, cadré is a different word: “on target”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bordure de bois, de marbre, de bronze, etc., dans laquelle on place un tableau, une estampe, un ouvrage de…”.

What does cadre mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineframe (of a door or picture)

  2. 2

    masculinebackbone (of an organization)

  3. 3

    masculinebox, square (on a printed page)

  4. 4

    masculineexecutive, middle manager

  5. 5

    masculinescope, framework

  6. 6

    masculinecadre

  7. 7

    masculinecontext, parameters

  8. 8

    masculineframe

    cadre en fibre de carbone

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

adjective

as cadré
  1. 1

    on target

verb

as cadré
  1. 1

    past participle of cadrer

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Bordure de bois, de marbre, de bronze, etc., dans laquelle on place un tableau, une estampe, un ouvrage de sculpture, etc. 2. Environnement physique, intérieur ou extérieur. 3. Limites à l’intérieur desquelles se déroule une activité. 4. Milieu de vie.

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 cadre

  • cadres plural
  • cadrée feminine
  • cadrés masculine plural
  • cadrées feminine plural

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

English words that translate to cadre

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

How common is cadre in French?

cadre appears 129 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).

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