massacre
French, noun
massacre is spelled M-A-S-S-A-C-R-E (8 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,331st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Massacre is a French masculine noun meaning “massacre” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of massacrer. With an accent, massacré is a different word: “past participle of massacrer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de massacrer”.
What does massacre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemassacre
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of massacrer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de massacrer. 2. Grande tuerie de gibier, d'animaux. 3. Ramure, tête du gibier tué. 4. Discours, critique très sévère qui n’épargne rien ni personne.
interjection: 1. Exclamation qui exprime l’impatience, le dépit.
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 massacre
- massacres plural
- massacrée feminine
- massacrés masculine plural
- massacrées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to massacre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is massacre in French?
massacre appears 13 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).