fantasme
French, noun
fantasme is spelled F-A-N-T-A-S-M-E (8 letters) and appears 5.6 times per million words in written French, the 10,294th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fantasme is a French masculine noun meaning “fantasy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of fantasmer. With an accent, fantasmé is a different word: “fantasized, dreamt”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vision illusoire, produite par une lésion du sens optique ou par un trouble des facultés mentales”.
What does fantasme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefantasy
- 2
datedmasculinehallucination
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
adjective
- 1
fantasized, dreamt
- 2
chimeric
verb
- 1
past participle of fantasmer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vision illusoire, produite par une lésion du sens optique ou par un trouble des facultés mentales. 2. Vision hallucinatoire. 3. Construction imaginaire, consciente ou inconsciente, permettant au sujet qui s’y met en scène, d’exprimer et de satisfaire un désir plus ou moins refoulé, de surmonter une angoisse.
adjective: 1. Rêvé, chimérique.
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 fantasme
- fantasmes plural
- phantasme alternative
- fantasmée feminine
- fantasmés masculine plural
- fantasmées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fantasme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fantasme in French?
fantasme appears 5.6 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).