confit
French, noun
confit is spelled C-O-N-F-I-T (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 32,719th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confit is a French masculine noun meaning “confit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of confire. With an accent, confît is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of confire”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Spécialité culinaire de Gascogne à base de viande cuite dans de la graisse”.
What does confit mean in English?
adjective
- 1
preserved, pickled
noun
- 1
masculineconfit
verb
- 1
past participle of confire
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
third-person singular past historic
verb
- 1
third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of confire
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Spécialité culinaire de Gascogne à base de viande cuite dans de la graisse. 2. Bain dans lequel on trempe les peaux pour détruire le collagène. Il en existe de diverses compositions à l'origine il s'agissait d’excréments dilués, actuellement on utilise des enzymes comme la trypsine.
adjective: 1. Se dit d’un fruit glacé au sucre. 2. Se dit d'une volaille ou autre viande cuite longuement dans la graisse. 3. Imprégné d’un sentiment ; figé dans une attitude.
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 confit
- confite feminine
- confits masculine plural
- confites feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is confit in French?
confit appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).