chateaubriand
French, noun
chateaubriand is spelled C-H-A-T-E-A-U-B-R-I-A-N-D (13 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 28,870th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chateaubriand is a French masculine noun meaning “chateaubriand (steak cut from a beef tenderloin)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, châteaubriand is a different word: “alternative spelling of chateaubriand”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de chateaubriant”.
What does chateaubriand mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechateaubriand (steak cut from a beef tenderloin)
noun
- 1
masculinealternative spelling of chateaubriand
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de chateaubriant.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de chateaubriant.
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 chateaubriand
- châteaubriands plural
- chateaubriands plural
- châteaubriant alternative
- chateaubriant alternative
- châteaubriand alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to chateaubriand
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chateaubriand in French?
chateaubriand appears 1.1 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).