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frenchify

/ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃɪfaɪ/

frenchify verb: to make French or more French-like in any way.

Verb (1)

frenchify (third-person singular simple present frenchifies, present participle frenchifying, simple past and past participle frenchified)

  1. (transitive) To make French or more French-like in any way.
    • This café likes to frenchify the names of its dishes to make them sound better than they actually are — they call their fish and chips "poisson-frites".
  2. (intransitive) To become French or more French-like.
    • This restaurant has frenchified.
  3. (transitive, uncommon) Synonym of gallicize, to translate into the French language.
    Synonyms:
    gallicize, to translate into the French language

Verb (2) capitalized: Frenchify

Frenchify (third-person singular simple present Frenchifies, present participle Frenchifying, simple past and past participle Frenchified)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of frenchify, to make or become more French.

frenchify meaning in Arabic and Vietnamese

frenchify in Arabic

to make French or more French-like
فَرْنَسَ farnasa

frenchify in Vietnamese

to make French or more French-like
Pháp hóa, Pháp hoá

Synonyms of frenchify

Forms of frenchify

third-person singular presentfrenchifies
present participlefrenchifying
past participlefrenchified
pastfrenchified
alternative formFrenchify
third-person singular presentFrenchifies
present participleFrenchifying
past participleFrenchified
pastFrenchified

Origin of frenchify

From French + -ify.

Words formed from frenchify

Questions about frenchify

What does frenchify mean?
Frenchify means to make French or more French-like in any way.
What is frenchify in Arabic?
Frenchify in Arabic is فَرْنَسَ (farnasa). See Frenchify meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is frenchify?
Frenchify is a verb.
How do you pronounce frenchify?
Frenchify is pronounced /ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃɪfaɪ/.
What is the past tense of frenchify?
The past tense of frenchify is frenchified.

Words near frenchify in the dictionary

  1. Frenchiest
  2. Frenchification
  3. Frenchifications
  4. frenchified
  5. frenchifies
  6. frenchify
  7. frenchifying
  8. Frenchiko
  9. Frenchily
  10. Frenchiness
  11. frenching

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: frenchify (page history and authors); Frenchify (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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