foncé
French, adjective
foncé is spelled F-O-N-C-É (5 letters) and appears 9.3 times per million words in written French, the 7,048th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Foncé is a French adjective meaning “dark (having a dark shade)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of foncer. Without its accent, fonce is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sombre ; peu clair”.
What does foncé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
dark (having a dark shade)
rouge foncé
verb
- 1
past participle of foncer
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
adjective: 1. Sombre ; peu clair.
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 foncé
- foncée feminine
- foncés masculine plural
- foncées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to foncé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is foncé in French?
foncé appears 9.3 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).