grapefruit
French, noun/ɡʁap.fʁɥit/
grapefruit is spelled G-R-A-P-E-F-R-U-I-T (10 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written French, the 205,184th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grapefruit is a French masculine noun meaning “grapefruit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Agrume pouvant être un Pomelo ou un pamplemousse”.
What does grapefruit mean in English?
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Agrume pouvant être un Pomelo ou un pamplemousse.
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 grapefruit
- grapefruits plural
- grape-fruit
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grapefruit?
- /ɡʁap.fʁɥit/
- /ɡʁɛp.fʁɥit/
- /ɡʁɛp.fʁut/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is grapefruit in French?
grapefruit appears about once in every 42 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).