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économique

French, adjective/e.kɔ.nɔ.mik/

économique is spelled É-C-O-N-O-M-I-Q-U-E (10 letters) and appears 117 times per million words in written French, the 708th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Économique is a French adjective meaning “economy; economic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui diminue les frais ou la dépense”.

What does économique mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    economy; economic

  2. 2

    economic (frugal)

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

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui diminue les frais ou la dépense. 2. Qui concerne l’économie ou au gouvernement d’un ménage, d’une maison. 3. Relatif à l’économie politique ; économicopolitique.

noun: 1. Science économique, économie politique.

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 économique

  • économiques plural
  • œconomique alternative obsolete

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

How do you pronounce économique?

  • /e.kɔ.nɔ.mik/
  • \e.kɔ.nɔ.mik\
  • [e.kɔ.nɔ.mik]

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

English words that translate to économique

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

How common is économique in French?

économique appears 117 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).

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