redevance
French, noun
redevance is spelled R-E-D-E-V-A-N-C-E (9 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written French, the 12,736th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Redevance is a French feminine noun meaning “royalty, rent (especially resource or economic rent)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, redevancé is a different word: “past participle of redevancer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rente, somme payable à termes fixes, généralement en contrepartie d’un service”.
What does redevance mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineroyalty, rent (especially resource or economic rent)
verb
- 1
past participle of redevancer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Rente, somme payable à termes fixes, généralement en contrepartie d’un service. 2. Somme versée à échéances périodiques en contrepartie d’un avantage concédé contractuellement. 3. Redevance audiovisuelle : contribution forfaitaire annuelle au bénéfice du service audiovisuel public.
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 redevance
- redevances plural
- redevancée feminine
- redevancés masculine plural
- redevancées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to redevance
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is redevance in French?
redevance appears 4.2 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).