graffiti
French, noun/ɡʁa.fi.ti/
graffiti is spelled G-R-A-F-F-I-T-I (8 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 20,952nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Graffiti is a French masculine noun meaning “graffiti (drawings on a public surface)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Inscription gravée, dessin tracé dans l’Antiquité sur des murs, des monuments”.
What does graffiti mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegraffiti (drawings on a public surface)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Inscription gravée, dessin tracé dans l’Antiquité sur des murs, des monuments. 2. Inscription, dessin, rapidement tracé, gribouillis. 3. Inscription ou dessin griffonné sur des murs ou sur les parois de monuments.
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 graffiti
- graffitis plural
- graff
- graffito
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce graffiti?
- /ɡʁa.fi.ti/
- \ɡʁa.fi.ti\
- [ɡʁa.fi.ti]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to graffiti
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is graffiti in French?
graffiti appears 1.9 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).