histoire
French, noun/is.twaʁ/
histoire is spelled H-I-S-T-O-I-R-E (8 letters) and appears 437 times per million words in written French, the 189th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Histoire is a French feminine noun meaning “story” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Récit d’actions, d’événements, de choses dignes de mémoire”.
What does histoire mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininestory
- 2
femininehistory
- 3
feminineinformallie, fantasy, invention
- 4
femininemisadventure
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Récit d’actions, d’événements, de choses dignes de mémoire. 2. Suite des états par lesquels sont passés un ou plusieurs peuples. 3. Traces et mémoires laissées par le passé chez un peuple ou un groupe. 4. Science humaine qui étudie le passé de l’humanité, son évolution. Connaissance des faits que rapportent les historiens. On l’emploie souvent par une sorte de personnification, et s’écrit alors Histoire.
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 histoire
- histoires plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce histoire?
- /is.twaʁ/
- ^((h muet))\is.twaʁ\
- [l‿is.twaʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to histoire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is histoire in French?
histoire appears 437 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).