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fraîche

French, adjective

fraîche is a French feminine adjective meaning “feminine singular of frais” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, fraiche is a different word: “feminine singular of frais; post-1990 spelling of fraîche”.

What does fraîche mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of frais

adjective

as fraiche
  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of frais; post-1990 spelling of fraîche

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Vent faible du matin ou du soir. 2. Au moment le plus frais du jour, tôt le matin. 3. Argent.

noun: 1. Variante orthographique de fraîche.

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 fraîche

  • fraiche alternative
  • fraîches plural
  • fraîche

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is fraîche in French?

fraîche appears 11 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).