française
/fɹɑnsˈɛz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.56 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Frenchwoman.
Example Sentences
- "So many of the Françaises marry you Americans that in twenty years—pouf!—their children will overrun France and it will be France no longer."
- "As Craig said, having looked over the françaises^([sic]) he could understand why the frogs didn’t want the Germans to get Paris."
- "In August, Bob Middleton and his friend Anne Jacobs celebrated his son Rob’s first wedding anniversary in Paris. Rob married a Française."
- "The Françaises were considerably younger than the westerners; 90% rather than 77% of them were under the age of thirty."
- "The baron’s imaginings, nonetheless, bring difference back (the unknown) into the familiar space of sameness by measuring the beauty of the “femmes sauvages” against familiar French frames of reference: the Françaises."
- "Diana Dunningham-Chapotin is a New Zealander by birth, an American by adoption, and a Française by residence (as she likes to be near her husband)."
Etymology
Borrowed from French Française.