fainéantise
French, noun/fɛ.ne.ɑ̃.tiz/
fainéantise is spelled F-A-I-N-É-A-N-T-I-S-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 61,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fainéantise is a French feminine noun meaning “idleness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de fainéanter”.
What does fainéantise mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineidleness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de fainéanter. 2. Fait d’être fainéant.
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 fainéantise
- fainéantises plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fainéantise?
- /fɛ.ne.ɑ̃.tiz/
- /fe.ne.ɑ̃.tiz/
- \fe.ne.ɑ̃.tiz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fainéantise in French?
fainéantise appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).