froideur
French, noun/fʁwa.dœʁ/
froideur is spelled F-R-O-I-D-E-U-R (8 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 29,681st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Froideur is a French feminine noun meaning “coldness, cold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État de ce qui manque de chaleur”.
What does froideur mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecoldness, cold
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État de ce qui manque de chaleur. 2. Froid accueil, indifférence, et dans ce sens, il peut s’employer au pluriel.
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 froideur
- froideurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce froideur?
- /fʁwa.dœʁ/
- /fʁwɑ.dœʁ/
- \fʁwa.dœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to froideur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is froideur in French?
froideur appears 1.1 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).