ferraille
French, noun
ferraille is spelled F-E-R-R-A-I-L-L-E (9 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,925th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ferraille is a French feminine noun meaning “old iron, scrap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, ferraillé is a different word: “past participle of ferrailler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vieux morceaux de fer usés ou rouillés”.
What does ferraille mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineold iron, scrap
- 2
colloquialfeminineloose change, shrapnel
verb
- 1
past participle of ferrailler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vieux morceaux de fer usés ou rouillés. 2. Menue monnaie. 3. Vieilles armes.
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 ferraille
- ferrailles plural
- ferraillée feminine
- ferraillés masculine plural
- ferraillées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ferraille
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ferraille in French?
ferraille appears 1.4 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).