chanvre
French, noun/ʃɑ̃vʁ/
chanvre is spelled C-H-A-N-V-R-E (7 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,380th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chanvre is a French masculine noun meaning “hemp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante herbacée, dioïque, dont les fibres de la tige sont utilisés dans la conception textile et dont les…”.
What does chanvre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehemp
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plante herbacée, dioïque, dont les fibres de la tige sont utilisés dans la conception textile et dont les inflorescences ont des propriétés psychoactives. 2. Matière textile issue de la tige de cette plante. 3. Chanvre indien.
adjective: 1. Qui ressemble à du chanvre, à de la filasse de chanvre. 2. Qui contient du chanvre, qui est fait avec du chanvre. 3. Qui est aromatisé au chanvre. 4. Se dit d'une personne qui est sous l'effet psychodysleptique du cannabis.
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 chanvre
- chanvres plural
- chanvrés plural masculine
- chanvrée singular feminine
- chanvrées plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chanvre?
- /ʃɑ̃vʁ/
- \ʃɑ̃vʁ\
- [ʃɑ̃vʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chanvre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chanvre in French?
chanvre appears 2.0 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).