pharma
French, noun/faʁ.ma/
pharma is spelled P-H-A-R-M-A (6 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,966th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pharma is a French feminine noun meaning “clipping of pharmacie” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pharmacie (en parlant de la science)”.
What does pharma mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineclipping of pharmacie
étudiants en pharma
adjective
- 1
clipping of pharmaceutique
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pharmacie (en parlant de la science). 2. Entreprise pharmaceutique, qui produit et vend des médicaments. 3. Pharmacie, officine où l’on prépare les médicaments, du lieu où on les conserve pour les vendre ou les distribuer.
adjective: 1. Pharmaceutique.
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.
How do you pronounce pharma?
- /faʁ.ma/
- \faʁ.ma\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pharma in French?
pharma appears 2.3 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).