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marijuana

French, noun/ma.ʁi.ʁwa.na/

marijuana is spelled M-A-R-I-J-U-A-N-A (9 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written French, the 15,828th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Marijuana is a French feminine noun meaning “marijuana, cannabis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mélange à fumer composé avec les feuilles et les fleurs femelles séchées du cannabis”.

What does marijuana mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininemarijuana, cannabis

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Mélange à fumer composé avec les feuilles et les fleurs femelles séchées du cannabis.

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 marijuana

  • marijuanas plural
  • marihuana
  • marie-jeanne

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

How do you pronounce marijuana?

  • /ma.ʁi.ʁwa.na/
  • /ma.ʁi.ʒɥa.na/
  • \ma.ʁi.ʒwa.na\

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

English words that translate to marijuana

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

How common is marijuana in French?

marijuana appears 3.0 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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