fièvre
French, noun/fjɛvʁ/
fièvre is spelled F-I-È-V-R-E (6 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,230th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fièvre is a French feminine noun meaning “fever” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État d'un animal (y compris un être humain) dont la température corporelle dépasse sa valeur normale”.
What does fièvre mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefever
bouton de fièvre
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État d'un animal (y compris un être humain) dont la température corporelle dépasse sa valeur normale. 2. Émotion forte, d’un trouble violent de l’âme. 3. Surexcitation causée par une occupation passionnante.
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 fièvre
- fièvres plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fièvre?
- /fjɛvʁ/
- \fjɛvʁ\
- [fjɛvʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fièvre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fièvre in French?
fièvre appears 14 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).