gruyère
French, noun/ɡʁy.jɛʁ/
gruyère is spelled G-R-U-Y-È-R-E (7 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,237th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gruyère is a French masculine noun meaning “Gruyère cheese” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fromage au lait cru de vache et à pâte pressée cuite, sans trous, fabriqué essentiellement en Suisse romande…”.
What does gruyère mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineGruyère cheese
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fromage au lait cru de vache et à pâte pressée cuite, sans trous, fabriqué essentiellement en Suisse romande mais aussi dans certaines communes de Suisse alémanique. 2. Autre fromage ressemblant au précédent, mais avec des trous, et très proche de l’emmental. Il est fabriqué en Franche-Comté et en Rhône-Alpes. 3. Objet percé de multiples trous; passoire. 4. Yeux de gruyère : Yeux sans expression.
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 gruyère
- gruyères plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gruyère?
- /ɡʁy.jɛʁ/
- /ɡʁɥi.jɛʁ/
- \ɡʁy.jɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gruyère
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gruyère in French?
gruyère appears 1.4 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).