froufrou
French, noun\fʁu.fʁu\
froufrou is spelled F-R-O-U-F-R-O-U (8 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 94,626th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Froufrou is a French masculine noun meaning “frou-frou (rustling sound)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bruit léger produit par le frôlement ou le froissement de quelque chose”.
What does froufrou mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefrou-frou (rustling sound)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bruit léger produit par le frôlement ou le froissement de quelque chose. 2. Ornement de tissu d’un vêtement.
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 froufrou
- froufrous plural
- frou-frou
- frou frou
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce froufrou?
- \fʁu.fʁu\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to froufrou
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is froufrou in French?
froufrou appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).