fantasie
French, noun
fantasie is spelled F-A-N-T-A-S-I-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 110,748th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fantasie is a French feminine noun meaning “alternative form of fantasy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of fantasier. With an accent, fantasié is a different word: “past participle of fantasier”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre anglo-saxon proche du merveilleux rattaché aux littératures de l'imaginaire qui décrit des univers…”.
What does fantasie mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of fantasy
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of fantasier
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre anglo-saxon proche du merveilleux rattaché aux littératures de l'imaginaire qui décrit des univers créés de toute pièce parfois reliés au nôtre et dotés de leurs propres géographie, Histoire, langues, environnement et peuples où le surnaturel, et notamment la magie, appartient au domaine du normal.
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 fantasie
- fantasies plural
- fantasiée feminine
- fantasiés masculine plural
- fantasiées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is fantasie in French?
fantasie appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).