ruine
French, noun
ruine is spelled R-U-I-N-E (5 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written French, the 8,090th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ruine is a French feminine noun meaning “ruin, wreck” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of ruiner. With an accent, ruiné is a different word: “past participle of ruiner”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dépérissement, destruction d’un bâtiment”.
What does ruine mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineruin, wreck
- 2
feminineruin
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of ruiner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a perdu sa fortune.
noun: 1. Dépérissement, destruction d’un bâtiment. 2. Destruction ; perte. 3. Perte des biens, de la fortune. 4. Ce qui est cause de la ruine de quelque chose, ce qui entraîne une grande dépense.
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 ruine
- ruines plural
- ruinée feminine
- ruinés masculine plural
- ruinées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ruine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ruine in French?
ruine appears 7.8 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).