fascine
French, verb
fascine is spelled F-A-S-C-I-N-E (7 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written French, the 17,650th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fascine is a French verb meaning “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, fasciné is a different word: “past participle of fasciner”.
What does fascine mean in English?
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of fasciner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fagot de petit bois. 2. Fagot de branchages dont on se sert pour combler des fossés, réparer de mauvais chemins et faire des ouvrages de défense. 3. Construction de fagots disposés à l’horizontale entre deux rangs de pieux, qui sert comme barrière ou pour empêcher l’érosion des berges d’un cours d'eau ou de ruissellement de surface. 4. Assemblage.
noun: 1. Personne à qui un fascinateur a jeté le mauvais œil.
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 fascine
- fascinée feminine
- fascinés masculine plural
- fascinées feminine plural
- fascines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fascine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fascine in French?
fascine appears 2.6 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).