fiancé
French, noun
fiancé is spelled F-I-A-N-C-É (6 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written French, the 14,436th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fiancé is a French masculine noun meaning “fiancé” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of fiancer. Without its accent, fiance is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui s’est lié par une promesse de mariage”.
What does fiancé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
engaged
noun
- 1
masculinefiancé
verb
- 1
past participle of fiancer
noun
- 1
feminineobsoletefaith; confidence
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui s’est lié par une promesse de mariage.
adjective: 1. Qui est lié par une promesse de mariage.
noun: 1. Confiance.
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 fiancé
- fiancée feminine
- fiancés masculine plural
- fiancées feminine plural
- fiances plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fiancé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fiancé in French?
fiancé appears 3.5 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).