gras
French, noun/ɡʁa/
gras is spelled G-R-A-S (4 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written French, the 3,674th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gras is a French masculine noun meaning “fat (animal tissue or substance resembling it)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Substance grasse”.
What does gras mean in English?
adjective
- 1
fat
- 2
bold
- 3
datedsynonym of grossier (“vulgar”)
noun
- 1
masculinefat (animal tissue or substance resembling it)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est formé de graisse. 2. Qualifie des mets où il y a plus ou moins de graisse. 3. Qui a beaucoup de graisse. 4. Qualifie un animal d’embouche.
adverb: 1. Avec lourdeur.
noun: 1. Substance grasse. 2. Substance de graisse. 3. Dans une viande, tout ce qui est autre que la partie rouge des tissus musculaires : la partie grasse, les tendons, les nerfs, et les gros vaisseaux sanguins. 4. Faire gras, manger gras : manger de la viande les jours maigres.
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 gras
- grasse feminine
- grasses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gras?
- /ɡʁa/
- /ɡʁɑ/
- \ɡʁɑ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gras
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gras in French?
gras appears 21 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).