enfer
French, noun/ɑ̃.fɛʁ/
enfer is spelled E-N-F-E-R (5 letters) and appears 29 times per million words in written French, the 2,767th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enfer is a French masculine noun meaning “Hell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Séjour des morts, avant le christianisme”.
What does enfer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineHell
- 2
masculinehell (a very uncomfortable situation)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Séjour des morts, avant le christianisme. 2. Lieux souterrains où les Grecs et les Romains croyaient que les âmes allaient après la mort. 3. Lieu destiné au supplice des damnés. 4. Lieu où l’on souffre, où l’on est au supplice, où l’on est extrêmement gêné, tourmenté, où il y a beaucoup de confusion et de désordre.
noun: 1. Variante de enfer au sens propre.
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 enfer
- enfers plural
- Enfers plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enfer?
- /ɑ̃.fɛʁ/
- \ɑ̃.fɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to enfer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enfer in French?
enfer appears 29 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).