thriller
French, noun/tʁi.lœʁ/
thriller is spelled T-H-R-I-L-L-E-R (8 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written French, the 11,545th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Thriller is a French masculine noun meaning “thriller (genre of fiction)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Œuvre littéraire ou cinématographique qui vise à donner des émotions fortes au lecteur ou au spectateur”.
What does thriller mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethriller (genre of fiction)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Œuvre littéraire ou cinématographique qui vise à donner des émotions fortes au lecteur ou au spectateur.
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 thriller
- thrillers plural
- thrilleur alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce thriller?
- /tʁi.lœʁ/
- /sʁi.lœʁ/
- \sʁi.lœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to thriller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is thriller in French?
thriller appears 4.8 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).