friable
French, adjective/fʁi.jabl/
friable is spelled F-R-I-A-B-L-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 49,558th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Friable is a French adjective meaning “crumbly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui peut aisément être réduit en poudre”.
What does friable mean in English?
adjective
- 1
crumbly
- 2
crummy, pitiful
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui peut aisément être réduit en poudre. 2. Qui paraît cassant ou fragile. 3. Qui a perdu sa cohésion et s’écrase facilement, en parlant d’un tissu du corps. 4. Se dit d’un nombre entier dont tous les diviseurs premiers sont petits, par rapport à une borne donnée.
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 friable
- friables plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce friable?
- /fʁi.jabl/
- \fʁi.jabl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to friable
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is friable in French?
friable appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).