emoji
French, noun
emoji is spelled E-M-O-J-I (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 41,708th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emoji is a French masculine noun meaning “emoji (“digital graphic icon used to represent a concept or object”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, émoji is a different word: “alternative form of emoji”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Émoticône ou pictogramme ayant un point de code unique, utilisé dans les messages électroniques, par exemple…”.
What does emoji mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineemoji (“digital graphic icon used to represent a concept or object”)
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of emoji
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Émoticône ou pictogramme ayant un point de code unique, utilisé dans les messages électroniques, par exemple 🚃 (U+1F683 dans Unicode).
noun: 1. Variante orthographique francisée de emoji.
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 emoji
- emojis plural
- émoji alternative
- émojis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to emoji
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is emoji in French?
emoji appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).