parisienne
French, noun
parisienne is spelled P-A-R-I-S-I-E-N-N-E (10 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written French, the 3,747th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Parisienne is a French feminine noun meaning “a small size of type, standardized as 5 point” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of parisien. With a capital, Parisienne is a different word: “Parisienne”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fonte de caractère d'une taille équivalent à un corps 5, dite autrefois sédanoise”.
What does parisienne mean in English?
noun
- 1
datedfemininea small size of type, standardized as 5 point
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of parisien
noun
- 1
feminineParisienne
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fonte de caractère d'une taille équivalent à un corps 5, dite autrefois sédanoise.
noun: 1. Baguette, pain long et croustillant.
noun: 1. Habitante de Paris, commune française située dans la région Île-de-France.
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 parisienne
- Parisiennes plural
- parisiennes plural
- Parisien masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to parisienne
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is parisienne in French?
parisienne appears 20 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).