ringardise
French, noun
ringardise is spelled R-I-N-G-A-R-D-I-S-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 113,280th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ringardise is a French feminine noun meaning “shabbiness, seediness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, ringardisé is a different word: “past participle of ringardiser”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fait d’être ringard, d'être démodé”.
What does ringardise mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineshabbiness, seediness
- 2
femininemediocrity
verb
- 1
past participle of ringardiser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fait d’être ringard, d'être démodé. 2. Grande médiocrité intellectuelle ou morale.
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 ringardise
- ringardises plural
- ringardisée feminine
- ringardisés masculine plural
- ringardisées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is ringardise in French?
ringardise appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).