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docufiction

French, noun/dɔ.ky.fik.sjɔ̃/

docufiction is spelled D-O-C-U-F-I-C-T-I-O-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written French, the 200,689th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Docufiction is a French feminine noun meaning “docudrama (genre of television and film which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fiction qui adopte les traits du documentaire”.

What does docufiction mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininedocudrama (genre of television and film which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Fiction qui adopte les traits du documentaire.

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 docufiction

  • docufictions plural
  • docu-fiction

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce docufiction?

  • /dɔ.ky.fik.sjɔ̃/
  • \dɔ.ky.fik.sjɔ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to docufiction

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is docufiction in French?

docufiction appears about once in every 40 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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