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champ

French, noun

champ is spelled C-H-A-M-P (5 letters) and appears 56 times per million words in written French, the 1,478th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Champ is a French masculine noun meaning “a wide open space” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, champ' is a different word: “champagne, champers”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Parcelle de terre utilisée pour l’agriculture”.

What does champ mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinea wide open space

  2. 2

    masculinean area of study

  3. 3

    masculinea vector field, tensor field, or scalar field (but not a commutative ring with identity for which every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse, cf. corps m)

  4. 4

    masculinethe background of a shield's design

noun

as champ'
  1. 1

    informalslangchampagne, champers

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Parcelle de terre utilisée pour l’agriculture. 2. Étendue de plantes non-cultivées. 3. Campagne, terres labourables, prés, bois, bruyères, etc. 4. Antonyme de ville.

noun: 1. Bord le plus long d’une tôle, d’une plaque, d’une planche ; et plus généralement, face étroite d’un objet pris dans sa longueur, par opposition à la face la plus large qui en forme le plat et la plus petite face qui en est le bout.

noun: 1. Variante orthographique de champ’.

noun: 1. Champagne (vin).

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 champ

  • champs plural
  • champ’ canonical masculine
  • chant
  • champ

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

English words that translate to champ

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

How common is champ in French?

champ appears 56 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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