franc
French, noun
franc is spelled F-R-A-N-C (5 letters) and appears 28 times per million words in written French, the 2,874th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Franc is a French masculine noun meaning “franc (any of several units of currency)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Franc is a different word: “Frank (member of a people that inhabited parts of what are now…”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Unité monétaire utilisée par plusieurs pays”.
What does franc mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Frankish, Franconian
langue franche
- 2
free
avoir les coudées franches
- 3
frank; honest
franc comme l'or
- 4
full
4 jours francs
noun
- 1
masculinefranc (any of several units of currency)
franc belge
noun
- 1
masculineFrank (member of a people that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Membre du peuple des Francs.
noun: 1. Habitant de Francs, commune française située dans le département de la Gironde.
adjective: 1. Libre de ses mouvements et de son action, en opposition au statut d’esclave ou de serf. 2. Exempt de charges, d’impôts ou de dettes. 3. Sincère, loyal, honnête. 4. Naturel et sans mélange, vrai, pur.
adjective: 1. Relatif aux Francs. 2. Relatif aux Européens du Levant.
noun: 1. Unité monétaire utilisée par plusieurs pays. 2. Scion d’arbre franc.
adverb: 1. Largement, ouvertement, résolument, sans déguiser, sans biaiser. 2. Directement. 3. Très, complètement.
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 franc
- franche feminine
- francs masculine plural
- franches feminine plural
- Francs plural
- Franque feminine
- France feminine
- franque singular feminine
- franques plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to franc
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is franc in French?
franc appears 28 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).