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parodie

French, noun

parodie is spelled P-A-R-O-D-I-E (7 letters) and appears 5.1 times per million words in written French, the 11,014th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Parodie is a French feminine noun meaning “parody” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, parodié is a different word: “past participle of parodier”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Texte composé pour être chanté sur une musique connue”.

What does parodie mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineparody

verb

as parodié
  1. 1

    past participle of parodier

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Texte composé pour être chanté sur une musique connue. 2. Satire qui imite en la tournant en ridicule, une partie ou la totalité d’une œuvre sérieuse connue. 3. Contrefaçon burlesque d'une pièce de théâtre connue. 4. Imitation grossière qui ne restitue que certaines apparences, travestissement burlesque, caricature.

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 parodie

  • parodies plural
  • parodiée feminine
  • parodiés masculine plural
  • parodiées feminine plural

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

English words that translate to parodie

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

How common is parodie in French?

parodie appears 5.1 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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