frénésie
French, noun/fʁe.ne.zi/
frénésie is spelled F-R-É-N-É-S-I-E (8 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,512th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frénésie is a French feminine noun meaning “frenzy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fureur violente”.
What does frénésie mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefrenzy
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fureur violente. 2. Toute passion parvenue à un degré d’extrême violence et confinant à la folie.
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 frénésie
- frénésies plural
- phrénésie
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frénésie?
- /fʁe.ne.zi/
- \fʁe.ne.zi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to frénésie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is frénésie in French?
frénésie appears 1.5 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).