défi
French, noun/de.fi/
défi is spelled D-É-F-I (4 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written French, the 3,448th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Défi is a French masculine noun meaning “challenge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de défier”.
What does défi mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechallenge
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de défier. 2. Épreuve à surmonter.
noun: 1. Pratique de la finance sans autorité centrale, par exemple en utilisant une blockchain, dite finance décentralisée.
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 défi
- défis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce défi?
- /de.fi/
- \de.fi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to défi
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is défi in French?
défi appears 22 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).