fichu
French, noun/fi.ʃy/
fichu is a French masculine noun meaning “fichu” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petite pièce d’étoffe carrée, d’ordinaire pliée en triangle, dont les femmes se couvrent la tête, la gorge et…”.
What does fichu mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefichu
- 2
masculinescarf, headscarf
adjective
- 1
colloquiallousy, rotten, hell of a
- 2
colloquialdone for
- 3
colloquialput together, rigged out, got up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Fait, arrangé. 2. Qui est mal tourné, déplaisant, fâcheux, critique. 3. Qui est perdu, car hors d’usage, cassé, ruiné. 4. Capable, susceptible de quelque chose.
noun: 1. Petite pièce d’étoffe carrée, d’ordinaire pliée en triangle, dont les femmes se couvrent la tête, la gorge et les épaules.
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 fichu
- fichus plural
- fichue feminine
- fichues feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fichu?
- /fi.ʃy/
- \fi.ʃy\
- [fi.ʃy]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fichu
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fichu in French?
fichu appears 1.9 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).