artifice
French, noun/aʁ.ti.fis/
artifice is a French masculine noun meaning “artifice, trick, ploy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qui sert à déguiser, à tromper”.
What does artifice mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineartifice, trick, ploy
- 2
masculinedevice
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ce qui sert à déguiser, à tromper. 2. Art, habileté. 3. Moyen habile d'exprimer une pensée, une idée. 4. Engin.
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 artifice
- artifices plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce artifice?
- /aʁ.ti.fis/
- \aʁ.ti.fis\
- [aʁ.ti.fis]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to artifice
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is artifice in French?
artifice appears 6.0 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).