femme
French, noun/fam/
femme is spelled F-E-M-M-E (5 letters) and appears 389 times per million words in written French, the 216th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Femme is a French feminine noun meaning “woman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être humain adulte de genre ou de sexe féminin (par opposition à fille, fillette, femme-enfant)”.
What does femme mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewoman
- 2
femininewife
- 3
femininerarealternative form of fem (“femme, feminine lesbian”) (contrast butch)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Être humain adulte de genre ou de sexe féminin (par opposition à fille, fillette, femme-enfant). 2. Conjointe ; épouse ; partenaire. 3. Personne adulte de genre féminin, qui possède les qualités supposées des femmes. 4. Personnel féminin. → voir femme de ménage et femme de chambre.
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 femme
- femmes plural
- homme masculine
- enby
- nb
- non-binaire
- fxmme rare
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce femme?
- /fam/
- [fɑ̃m]
- \fam\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to femme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is femme in French?
femme appears 389 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).