remballe
French, noun
remballe is spelled R-E-M-B-A-L-L-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 41,708th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Remballe is a French feminine noun meaning “a fraudulent action in which a supermarket puts flesh that has reached its conservation date in a new covering which has a new conservation…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of remballer. With an accent, remballé is a different word: “past participle of remballer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pratique frauduleuse qui consiste, pour un supermarché, à mettre de la viande qui atteint sa date de…”.
What does remballe mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea fraudulent action in which a supermarket puts flesh that has reached its conservation date in a new covering which has a new conservation date
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of remballer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pratique frauduleuse qui consiste, pour un supermarché, à mettre de la viande qui atteint sa date de péremption sous un nouvel emballage, avec une nouvelle date de péremption.
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 remballe
- remballes plural
- remballée feminine
- remballés masculine plural
- remballées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is remballe in French?
remballe appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).