phrase
French, noun
phrase is spelled P-H-R-A-S-E (6 letters) and appears 45 times per million words in written French, the 1,857th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Phrase is a French feminine noun meaning “sentence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, phrasé is a different word: “phrasing (the way the musical phrases are put together in a…”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Séquence de propositions ordonnées en fonction des règles de la grammaire, permettant de décrire quelque…”.
What does phrase mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesentence
noun
- 1
masculinephrasing (the way the musical phrases are put together in a composition or in its interpretation)
verb
- 1
past participle of phraser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Séquence de propositions ordonnées en fonction des règles de la grammaire, permettant de décrire quelque chose. 2. Ensemble de quelques mots prononcés. 3. Suite non interrompue de sons simples ou d’accords, qui forme un sens plus ou moins achevé et qui se termine sur un repos.
noun: 1. Façon de faire des phrases. 2. Structure, balancement rythmique ou harmonique d’une phrase musicale. 3. Rythme.
adjective: 1. Harmoniquement composé ou joué.
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 phrase
- phrases plural
- phrasés plural
- phrasée feminine
- phrasées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to phrase
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is phrase in French?
phrase appears 45 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).