proverbe
French, noun/pʁɔ.vɛʁb/
proverbe is spelled P-R-O-V-E-R-B-E (8 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written French, the 14,223rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Proverbe is a French masculine noun meaning “proverb, saying” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sorte de sentence, de maxime exprimée en peu de mots et devenue d’usage commun”.
What does proverbe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineproverb, saying
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sorte de sentence, de maxime exprimée en peu de mots et devenue d’usage commun. 2. Livre qui contient ces maximes 3. Sorte de petite comédie qui se joue en société et qui met en action un proverbe.
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 proverbe
- proverbes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce proverbe?
- /pʁɔ.vɛʁb/
- \pʁɔ.vɛʁb\
- [pʁo.vɛʁb]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to proverbe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is proverbe in French?
proverbe appears 3.5 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).