frairie
French, noun/fʁɛ.ʁi/
frairie is spelled F-R-A-I-R-I-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 36 million words in written French, the 192,066th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frairie is a French feminine noun meaning “fete, festival (of a locality)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Subdivision d'une paroisse, durant l’Ancien Régime”.
What does frairie mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicfemininefete, festival (of a locality)
- 2
archaicfemininemerrymaking
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Subdivision d'une paroisse, durant l’Ancien Régime. 2. Fête de village, kermesse. 3. Partie de divertissement et de bonne chère.
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 frairie
- frairies plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frairie?
- /fʁɛ.ʁi/
- /fʁe.ʁi/
- \fʁɛ.ʁi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is frairie in French?
frairie appears about once in every 36 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).