frenchify

1. 1.

   make French in appearance or character

   “let's Frenchify the restaurant and charge more money”

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2. 2.

   become French in appearance or character

   “This restaurant has Frenchified”

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Other forms of frenchify

past tense or participle

frenchified

present participle

frenchifying·

third person

frenchifies·

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 frenchify

What does frenchify mean?

frenchify means "make French in appearance or character". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frenchify?

frenchify has 3 syllables: fren-chi-fy. The stress falls on "fren".

Is frenchify a common word?

frenchify is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.