france

Other forms of france

plural

frances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about france

What does france mean?

france means "a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in france?

france has 1 syllable: france. In IPA it is /ˈfɹæns/.

What is another word for france?

Close synonyms include French Republic, Anatole France, Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is france a common word?

france is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.