fane
French, noun
fane is spelled F-A-N-E (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 39,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fane is a French feminine noun meaning “the leaves attached to vegetables, but which are themselves not usually consumed, such as those of carrot, radishes and cauliflowers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, fané is a different word: “faded”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Feuille tombée d’un arbre”.
What does fane mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicfemininedry leaf
- 2
femininethe leaves attached to vegetables, but which are themselves not usually consumed, such as those of carrot, radishes and cauliflowers
- 3
femininethe leaves of any vegetable which is not itself a leaf vegetable, and which are not usually attached to the edible part, such as those of potatoes, tomatoes and beans
adjective
- 1
faded
verb
- 1
past participle of faner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Feuille tombée d’un arbre. 2. Touffe de feuilles de certains légumes, comme les pommes de terre, les carottes, les salsifis, etc. 3. Enveloppe foliacée de la fleur des anémones et des renoncules.
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 fane
- fanes plural
- fanée feminine
- fanés masculine plural
- fanées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fane
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fane in French?
fane 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).