rêve
French, noun
rêve is spelled R-Ê-V-E (4 letters) and appears 69 times per million words in written French, the 1,207th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rêve is a French masculine noun meaning “dream” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of rêver. With an accent, rêvé is a different word: “perfect, ideal”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Expérience illusoire, souvent absurde, agréable ou désagréable, vécue à la faveur d'une activité cérébrale…”.
What does rêve mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedream
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
adjective
- 1
perfect, ideal
verb
- 1
past participle of rêver
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Expérience illusoire, souvent absurde, agréable ou désagréable, vécue à la faveur d'une activité cérébrale pendant le sommeil. 2. Chose plaisante par opposition à cauchemar (pendant le sommeil ou non). 3. Projet sans fondement, chimère, utopie. 4. Désir, espérance.
interjection: 1. Interjection exprimant un refus ou une négation forte.
adjective: 1. Dont on peut rêver, idéal.
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 rêve
- rêves plural
- rêvée feminine
- rêvés masculine plural
- rêvées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to rêve
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rêve in French?
rêve appears 69 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).