film
French, noun/film/
film is spelled F-I-L-M (4 letters) and appears 229 times per million words in written French, the 366th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Film is a French masculine noun meaning “movie, film” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pellicule de gélatine de type photographique sur laquelle on enregistre une suite d’images à l’aide d’un…”.
What does film mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemovie, film
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pellicule de gélatine de type photographique sur laquelle on enregistre une suite d’images à l’aide d’un appareil photo. 2. Support d’enregistrement d’une suite d’images constituant un récit, qu’il soit argentique (pellicule cinématographique), vidéo ou numérique. 3. L’œuvre elle-même. 4. Industrie du cinéma.
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 film
- films plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce film?
- /film/
- \film\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to film
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is film in French?
film appears 229 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).