précipice
French, noun/pʁe.si.pis/
précipice is spelled P-R-É-C-I-P-I-C-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 35,423rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Précipice is a French masculine noun meaning “precipice, deep and steep escarpment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Abîme, gouffre, cavité très profonde et très escarpée”.
What does précipice mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprecipice, deep and steep escarpment
tomber dans un précipice
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Abîme, gouffre, cavité très profonde et très escarpée. 2. Grand malheur, disgrâce, catastrophe.
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 précipice
- précipices plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce précipice?
- /pʁe.si.pis/
- \pʁe.si.pis\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to précipice
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is précipice in French?
précipice appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).