confrère
French, noun/kɔ̃.fʁɛʁ/
confrère is spelled C-O-N-F-R-È-R-E (8 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written French, the 18,149th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confrère is a French masculine noun meaning “colleague, fellow, peer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui fait partie d’une compagnie, d’une société religieuse, littéraire, artistique, etc.…”.
What does confrère mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecolleague, fellow, peer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui fait partie d’une compagnie, d’une société religieuse, littéraire, artistique, etc., particulièrement quand il a été admis par les autres membres à en faire partie. 2. Celui qui exerce la même profession libérale qu’un autre membre de ce métier.
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 confrère
- confrères plural
- consœur feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce confrère?
- /kɔ̃.fʁɛʁ/
- \kɔ̃.fʁɛʁ\
- [kɔ̃.fʁɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to confrère
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is confrère in French?
confrère appears 2.5 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).