ogre
French, noun/ɔɡʁ/
ogre is spelled O-G-R-E (4 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 21,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ogre is a French masculine noun meaning “ogre” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personnage de conte de fées, sorte de monstre, de géant qui passe pour se nourrir de chair humaine…”.
What does ogre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineogre
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personnage de conte de fées, sorte de monstre, de géant qui passe pour se nourrir de chair humaine, spécialement de celle des enfants. 2. Mangeur vorace ; goinfre. 3. Personne possessive. 4. Repris de justice tenancier d’un tapis-franc.
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 ogre
- ogres plural
- ogresse feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ogre?
- /ɔɡʁ/
- \ɔɡʁ\
- [ɔɡʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ogre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ogre in French?
ogre appears 1.8 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).