smoking
French, noun/smɔ.kiŋ/
smoking is spelled S-M-O-K-I-N-G (7 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 27,734th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Smoking is a French masculine noun meaning “tuxedo, dinner jacket” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tenue de soirée ou de cérémonie pour homme, qui comprend un costume à revers de soie et en guise de cravate…”.
What does smoking mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetuxedo, dinner jacket
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tenue de soirée ou de cérémonie pour homme, qui comprend un costume à revers de soie et en guise de cravate un nœud papillon.
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 smoking
- smokings plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce smoking?
- /smɔ.kiŋ/
- \smɔ.kiŋ\
- [smɔ.kiŋg]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to smoking
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is smoking in French?
smoking appears 1.2 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).