fébrile
French, adjective/fe.bʁil/
fébrile is spelled F-É-B-R-I-L-E (7 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 28,091st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fébrile is a French adjective meaning “febrile, feverous, feverish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a rapport à la fièvre, qui produit la fièvre”.
What does fébrile mean in English?
adjective
- 1
febrile, feverous, feverish
Avant l’examen, elle était fébrile et ne pouvait pas se concentrer.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a rapport à la fièvre, qui produit la fièvre. 2. Ce qui est l’effet de la fièvre. 3. Qui est accompagné de la fièvre. 4. Excessif, désordonné, ardent ou agité.
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 fébrile
- fébriles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fébrile?
- /fe.bʁil/
- \fe.bʁil\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fébrile
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fébrile in French?
fébrile appears 1.2 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).