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scrap

French\skʁap\

scrap is a French noun. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ferraille”; the English Wiktionary has no entry for it yet.

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Ferraille. 2. Chose, objet, de peu de valeur.

adjective: 1. Brisé, usé, endommagé, abîmé, souvent au point de ne plus fonctionner.

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 scrap

  • scraps plural
  • scrape
  • scrapes plural feminine

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

How do you pronounce scrap?

  • \skʁap\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is scrap in French?

scrap appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).