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keepsake

French, noun/kip.sɛk/

keepsake is spelled K-E-E-P-S-A-K-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 37 million words in written French, the 194,108th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Keepsake is a French masculine noun meaning “keepsake, literary album” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “À l’époque romantique, album de fines gravures donné en cadeau, surtout à l’occasion des fêtes de fin d’année”.

What does keepsake mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinekeepsake, literary album

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. À l’époque romantique, album de fines gravures donné en cadeau, surtout à l’occasion des fêtes de fin d’année. 2. Objet que l’on conserve en souvenir d’un événement, par nostalgie.

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 keepsake

  • keepsakes plural

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

How do you pronounce keepsake?

  • /kip.sɛk/
  • /kip.sɛjk/
  • \kip.sɛk\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is keepsake in French?

keepsake appears about once in every 37 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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