froid
French, noun/fʁwa/
froid is spelled F-R-O-I-D (5 letters) and appears 66 times per million words in written French, the 1,256th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Froid is a French masculine noun meaning “cold, chill” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État de ce qui est froid”.
What does froid mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cold (temperature)
- 2
distant, unfriendly
noun
- 1
masculinecold, chill
- 2
masculinedistance, strain
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui nous donne la sensation d’une température notablement inférieure à la nôtre. 2. Qui est privé de chaleur. 3. Refroidi. 4. Qui se déguste froid, en parlant d’un mets ou par métonymie d’un repas.
adverb: 1. De basse température.
noun: 1. État de ce qui est froid. 2. Degré au-dessous de zéro.
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 froid
- froide feminine
- froids masculine plural
- froides feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce froid?
- /fʁwa/
- /fʁwɑ/
- \fʁwa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to froid
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is froid in French?
froid appears 66 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).