faucille
French, noun
faucille is spelled F-A-U-C-I-L-L-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 38,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Faucille is a French feminine noun meaning “a sickle (agricultural implement)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of fauciller. With an accent, faucillé is a different word: “past participle of fauciller”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Outil qui consiste en une lame d’acier courbée en demi-cercle, dentelée et fixée à une poignée de bois et qui…”.
What does faucille mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea sickle (agricultural implement)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of fauciller
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Outil qui consiste en une lame d’acier courbée en demi-cercle, dentelée et fixée à une poignée de bois et qui sert à couper l'herbe, les céréales. 2. Croissant de Lune. 3. Chacune des deux grandes plumes recourbées de la queue du coq.
noun: 1. Lépidoptère, papillon de nuit de la famille des drépanidés (Drepanidae), dont l’extrémité des ailes est courbée comme une faucille.
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 faucille
- faucilles plural
- faucillée feminine
- faucillés masculine plural
- faucillées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to faucille
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is faucille in French?
faucille appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).