portraiture
French, noun
portraiture is spelled P-O-R-T-R-A-I-T-U-R-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written French, the 186,002nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Portraiture is a French feminine noun meaning “portrait” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of portraiturer. With an accent, portraituré is a different word: “past participle of portraiturer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Portrait”.
What does portraiture mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineobsoleteportrait
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of portraiturer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Portrait.
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 portraiture
- portraitures plural
- portraiturée feminine
- portraiturés masculine plural
- portraiturées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is portraiture in French?
portraiture appears about once in every 34 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).