cruise
French, verb
cruise is spelled C-R-U-I-S-E (6 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written French, the 22,802nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cruise is a French verb meaning “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, cruisé is a different word: “past participle of cruiser”.
What does cruise mean in English?
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of cruiser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Drague.
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 cruise
- cruisée feminine
- cruisés masculine plural
- cruisées feminine plural
- cruises plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is cruise in French?
cruise appears 1.7 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).