fripe
French, noun
fripe is spelled F-R-I-P-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 109,514th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fripe is a French feminine noun meaning “rag (tattered clothes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of friper. With an accent, fripé is a different word: “past participle of friper”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tout ce qui se mange, en particulier ce qui se met sur une tartine, se mange avec du pain”.
What does fripe mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininerag (tattered clothes)
- 2
femininesecond-hand clothes
- 3
feminineclipping of friperie
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of friper
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tout ce qui se mange, en particulier ce qui se met sur une tartine, se mange avec du pain. 2. Au Québec existe l'expression "juste d'une fripe" désignant une action très rapide sans aucune interruption, d'un seul coup!
noun: 1. Vêtement usagé, voire à l’état de haillon. 2. Vêtement d’occasion, sans nuance péjorative. 3. Commerce des vêtements d’occasion. 4. Défaut d'une peinture ou d'un vernis qui se rétracte au séchage.
adjective: 1. Qui à des plis, en particulier en parlant d’un vêtement, chiffonné.
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 fripe
- fripes plural
- fripée feminine
- fripés masculine plural
- fripées feminine plural
- frippe
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fripe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fripe in French?
fripe appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).