lifting
French, noun/lif.tiŋ/
lifting is spelled L-I-F-T-I-N-G (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lifting is a French masculine noun meaning “facelift” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Opération de chirurgie esthétique destinée à retendre la peau. Lissage ou remodelage sont recommandés à la…”.
What does lifting mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefacelift
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Opération de chirurgie esthétique destinée à retendre la peau. Lissage ou remodelage sont recommandés à la place de cet anglicisme. 2. Opération de réarrangement ou modification superficielle d’une chose.
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 lifting
- liftings plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lifting?
- /lif.tiŋ/
- \lif.tiŋ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lifting
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lifting in French?
lifting appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).