portrait
French, noun/pɔʁ.tʁɛ/
portrait is spelled P-O-R-T-R-A-I-T (8 letters) and appears 32 times per million words in written French, the 2,514th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Portrait is a French masculine noun meaning “portrait” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Image, représentation d’une personne, faite avec le pinceau, le crayon, le burin, etc”.
What does portrait mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineportrait
- 2
masculineportrait (format)
- 3
masculinedescription (of a person or things)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Image, représentation d’une personne, faite avec le pinceau, le crayon, le burin, etc. 2. Ressemblance physique ou morale, se dit d’un fils, d’une fille qui ressemble à son père ou à sa mère, et de toute personne qui ressemble beaucoup à une autre. 3. Description qu’on fait de l’extérieur ou du caractère d’une personne. 4. Description de toute sorte d’objets.
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 portrait
- portraits plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce portrait?
- /pɔʁ.tʁɛ/
- \pɔʁ.tʁɛ\
- [œ̃ pɔʁ.tʁɛ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to portrait
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is portrait in French?
portrait appears 32 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).