prince
French, noun/pʁɛ̃s/
prince is spelled P-R-I-N-C-E (6 letters) and appears 63 times per million words in written French, the 1,323rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prince is a French masculine noun meaning “prince” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui est d’une maison souveraine”.
What does prince mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprince
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui est d’une maison souveraine. 2. Fils du roi ou du souverain régnant équivalent. 3. Souverain qui commande dans le lieu dont on parle. 4. Celui qui, sans être souverain, ni de maison souveraine, est à la tête d’une principauté, ou celui à qui un souverain a conféré ce titre.
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 prince
- princes plural
- princesse feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prince?
- /pʁɛ̃s/
- \pʁɛ̃s\
- [pʁɛ̃s]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to prince
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prince in French?
prince appears 63 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).