diarrhée
French, noun/dja.ʁe/
diarrhée is spelled D-I-A-R-R-H-É-E (8 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written French, the 16,835th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diarrhée is a French feminine noun meaning “diarrhea (medical condition)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Maladie caractérisée par des évacuations de selles, liquides et fréquentes, et qui est ordinairement due à…”.
What does diarrhée mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininediarrhea (medical condition)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Maladie caractérisée par des évacuations de selles, liquides et fréquentes, et qui est ordinairement due à l’inflammation de l’intestin. 2. Fort écoulement de liquide. 3. Flot d’informations intenses et sans intérêt pour l’interlocuteur.
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 diarrhée
- diarrhées plural
- diarrhœe alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce diarrhée?
- /dja.ʁe/
- \dja.ʁe\
- [dja.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to diarrhée
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is diarrhée in French?
diarrhée appears 2.8 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).