faveur
French, noun/fa.vœʁ/
faveur is spelled F-A-V-E-U-R (6 letters) and appears 60 times per million words in written French, the 1,396th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Faveur is a French feminine noun meaning “favour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Marque d’une bienveillante attention ou d’une préférence particulière”.
What does faveur mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefavour
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Marque d’une bienveillante attention ou d’une préférence particulière. 2. Marques de préférence qu’une femme donne à un homme. 3. Bienveillance, des bonnes grâces d’un personnage puissant, du public. 4. Crédit, du pouvoir qu’on a auprès d’un grand personnage, dont on est aimé, préféré.
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 faveur
- faveurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce faveur?
- /fa.vœʁ/
- \fa.vœʁ\
- [fa.vœʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to faveur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is faveur in French?
faveur appears 60 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).