cuisine
French, noun
cuisine is spelled C-U-I-S-I-N-E (7 letters) and appears 56 times per million words in written French, the 1,478th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cuisine is a French feminine noun meaning “kitchen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cuisiner. With an accent, cuisiné is a different word: “past participle of cuisiner”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pièce où l’on prépare et fait cuire les aliments”.
What does cuisine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininekitchen
Brian est dans la cuisine
- 2
feminineculinary art or cuisine
J’aime la cuisine française.
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of cuisiner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pièce où l’on prépare et fait cuire les aliments. 2. Ensemble du personnel travaillant dans cette pièce à l’élaboration des plats. 3. Ensemble d’ustensiles servant à préparer les aliments et qu’on peut transporter d’un lieu dans un autre. 4. Ordinaire d’une maison, repas qu’on y prépare habituellement.
adjective: 1. Qui a subi une préparation culinaire. 2. Qui est prêt à consommer, en parlant de nourriture. 3. Qui a été arrangé, mis au point.
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 cuisine
- cuisines plural
- cuisinée feminine
- cuisinés masculine plural
- cuisinées feminine plural
- kouizine slang
- couizine slang
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cuisine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cuisine in French?
cuisine appears 56 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).