front
French, noun/fʁɔ̃/
front is spelled F-R-O-N-T (5 letters) and appears 60 times per million words in written French, the 1,396th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Front is a French masculine noun meaning “forehead” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie antérieure de quelque chose. → voir de front”.
What does front mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineforehead
- 2
masculinefront, frontline
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie antérieure de quelque chose. → voir de front 2. Partie supérieure de la face. 3. Partie du visage qui est comprise entre la racine des cheveux et les sourcils. → voir front bas et front haut 4. Partie supérieure de la tête.
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 front
- fronts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce front?
- /fʁɔ̃/
- \fʁɔ̃\
- [fʁɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to front
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is front in French?
front appears 60 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).