suicide
French, noun
suicide is spelled S-U-I-C-I-D-E (7 letters) and appears 29 times per million words in written French, the 2,767th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Suicide is a French masculine noun meaning “suicide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of suicider. With an accent, suicidé is a different word: “suicide, someone who has committed suicide”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’une personne se donnant volontairement la mort”.
What does suicide mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesuicide
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
noun
- 1
masculinesuicide, someone who has committed suicide
verb
- 1
past participle of suicider
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’une personne se donnant volontairement la mort. 2. Personne qui se donne volontairement la mort. 3. Action présentant de forts risques pour la vie de celui qui l’entreprend. 4. Acte qui anéantit une dimension de la personne qui l'accomplit.
adjective: 1. Qui se tue lui-même.
noun: 1. Personne qui a commis un suicide.
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 suicide
- suicides plural
- suicidés plural
- suicidée feminine
- suicidées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to suicide
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is suicide in French?
suicide appears 29 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).