photographie
French, noun
photographie is spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E (12 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written French, the 4,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Photographie is a French feminine noun meaning “photography” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, photographié is a different word: “past participle of photographier”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Processus de fabrication d’images sur une surface sensible”.
What does photographie mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininephotography
- 2
femininephotograph
verb
- 1
past participle of photographier
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Processus de fabrication d’images sur une surface sensible. 2. Image sur un support photosensible. 3. Portrait réalisé par photographie. 4. Art des photographes.
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 photographie
- photographies plural
- photographiée feminine
- photographiés masculine plural
- photographiées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to photographie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is photographie in French?
photographie appears 17 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).