francité
French, noun/fʁɑ̃.si.te/
francité is a French feminine noun meaning “Frenchness (being French)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Caractère de ce qui est français”.
What does francité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineFrenchness (being French)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Caractère de ce qui est français. 2. Ensemble des personnes qui connaissent le français et aiment la culture française.
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 francité
- francités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce francité?
- /fʁɑ̃.si.te/
- \fʁɑ̃.si.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to francité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is francité in French?
francité appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).