fanfaronné
French, verb
fanfaronné is spelled F-A-N-F-A-R-O-N-N-É (10 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 93,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fanfaronné is a French verb meaning “past participle of fanfaronner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, fanfaronne is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does fanfaronné mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of fanfaronner
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qui se vante, qui étale une prétendue bravoure, ou toute autre qualité.
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 fanfaronné
- fanfaronnée feminine
- fanfaronnés masculine plural
- fanfaronnées feminine plural
- fanfaronnes plural
- fanfaron masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is fanfaronné in French?
fanfaronné appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).