smurf
French, noun/smœʁf/
smurf is spelled S-M-U-R-F (5 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 96,749th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Smurf is a French masculine noun meaning “a sort of breakdancing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre musical et style de danse de rue né aux États-Unis (arrivé en France dans les années 1980 avec le…”.
What does smurf mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea sort of breakdancing
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre musical et style de danse de rue né aux États-Unis (arrivé en France dans les années 1980 avec le hip-hop).
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 smurf
- smurfs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce smurf?
- /smœʁf/
- \smœʁf\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is smurf in French?
smurf appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).