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image

French, noun

image is spelled I-M-A-G-E (5 letters) and appears 126 times per million words in written French, the 657th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Image is a French feminine noun meaning “picture, image” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of imager. With an accent, imagé is a different word: “figurative (of sense of term or discourse)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Représentation d’êtres ou d’objets par le dessin, la peinture, la sculpture, la gravure, la photographie, le…”.

What does image mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininepicture, image

  2. 2

    feminineframe

  3. 3

    feminineA mental representation.

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

adjective

as imagé
  1. 1

    figurative (of sense of term or discourse)

  2. 2

    graphic (full of imagery), graphical

verb

as imagé
  1. 1

    past participle of imager

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Représentation d’êtres ou d’objets par le dessin, la peinture, la sculpture, la gravure, la photographie, le cinéma, etc. 2. Représentations pour la sculpture, la peinture, la gravure de ce qui est l’objet d’un culte religieux. 3. Représentation, projection d’un objet produite par la réunion des rayons ou faisceaux lumineux qui en émanent et se reconstituent sur un miroir, sur un écran ou sur l’œil qui perçoit cette image. 4. Estampe ordinairement gravée et coloriée plus ou moins grossièrement.

adjective: 1. Qui utilise des images, des comparaisons.

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 image

  • images plural
  • imagée feminine
  • imagés masculine plural
  • imagées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to image

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is image in French?

image appears 126 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).

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