fripier
French, noun/fʁi.pje/
fripier is spelled F-R-I-P-I-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written French, the 196,291st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fripier is a French masculine noun meaning “secondhand clothes dealer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui fait le métier d’acheter, de raccommoder et de revendre de vieux habits et de vieux meubles”.
What does fripier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesecondhand clothes dealer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui travaille dans une friperie. 2. Se dit de la larve des phryganes, qui agglutine des corps étrangers autour de son corps.
noun: 1. Celui qui fait le métier d’acheter, de raccommoder et de revendre de vieux habits et de vieux meubles. 2. Genre de mollusques gastéropodes, formé aux dépens des troques, et qui a la propriété d’agglutiner les corps étrangers autour de sa coquille.
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 fripier
- fripiers plural
- fripière feminine
- fripières plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fripier?
- /fʁi.pje/
- \fʁi.pje\
- [fʁipje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fripier in French?
fripier appears about once in every 38 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).