phonographie
French, noun
phonographie is spelled P-H-O-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 71 million words in written French, the 264,399th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Phonographie is a French feminine noun meaning “phonography” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, phonographié is a different word: “recorded (on a gramophone record)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Moyen de figurer les sons sur un papier : on fixe à un corps vibrant une barbe de plume, on la promène…”.
What does phonographie mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininephonography
adjective
- 1
recorded (on a gramophone record)
verb
- 1
past participle of phonographier
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Moyen de figurer les sons sur un papier : on fixe à un corps vibrant une barbe de plume, on la promène rapidement sur une feuille de papier recouverte de noir de fumée, de manière que la plume reste en contact avec la surface noircie ; et il se produira un sillon plane ondulé dont l’aspect révélera toutes les circonstances du mouvement vibratoire.
adjective: 1. Qui a fait l'objet d'une enregistrement phonographique.
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 phonographie
- phonographiée feminine
- phonographiés masculine plural
- phonographiées feminine plural
- phonographies plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to phonographie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is phonographie in French?
phonographie appears about once in every 71 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).