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French Food Words

Below you will see a bunch of French words for food and drink. Enter their English translations.
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French
English
Eau
Water
Fromage
Cheese
Pain
Bread
Café
Coffee
Gâteau
Cake
Oeuf
Egg
Pomme
Apple
Pomme de terre
Potato
Vin
Wine
Lapin
Rabbit
Sucre
Sugar
Confiture
Jam
Beurre
Butter
Canard
Duck
Menthe
Mint
Poisson
Fish
Foie
Liver
Champignon
Mushroom
Cerise
Cherry
Frites
Fries
Miel
Honey
Fraise
Strawberry
Framboise
Raspberry
Citron
Lemon
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100 Recent Comments
cariad
+1
Level 40
Apr 27, 2015
24/24 and over 2mins left! Nice quiz.
Malbaby
+2
Level 70
May 5, 2015
23/24 I could not remember Honey for Miel although it was on the tip of my tongue....... the word, not the honey.
stromae
+3
Level 70
Jul 14, 2015
i was listening to dernière danse by indila and she said miel while I read it hahaha
PrinceEric
+10
Level 56
Jul 14, 2015
I will never forget "fromage" as long as I live, all thanks to Dexter's Laboratory. "Omelette du fromage -- omelette du fromage -- omelette du fromage -- omelette du fromage --"
epicdjyoshi
+1
Level 55
Jul 18, 2015
Got everything but had to look up liver. Thought it was pate
KCookie
+1
Level 20
Apr 7, 2016
It is pate. I've never heard this one. I am in my first year of French and we just finished learning foods.
Dechnord
+15
Level 76
Apr 25, 2016
It is not pâté : you can make pâté with liver (and with a lot of other things too), but liver is the organ, foie, and only foie. You've got a liver, you are not made of pâté !
Crazyguineapig
+2
Level 55
May 9, 2025
Sacrilege ! Foie gras, for example, is not pâté !
sillie
+2
Level 75
Jul 24, 2015
The answers should really be paired to the clues in this one, no guessing every damn food you know to get a lot of them right.
Sifhraven
+2
Level 76
Jan 13, 2019
I agree this quiz desperately needs a yellow box
JBrommit
+3
Level 67
Aug 27, 2015
Haven't taken french since it stopped being mandatory in high school (I'm 25), but I'm Canadian- so thanks, bilingual packaging! I remember my food words REALLY well. Only thing I missed was confiture. :P
branmuffin
+4
Level 38
Sep 18, 2015
Where is Pamplemousse? My favourite french word cause it's so silly sounding :)
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
May 10, 2017
You took my comment! I was just about to write that when I took French at school, my favourite French word was pamplemousse.
stone222
+1
Level 47
Oct 15, 2018
agreed...
TwoWheels
+2
Level 65
Feb 2, 2020
Mine was Chou-fleur... cabbage flower or cauliflower!
brandybuck96
+1
Level 82
Feb 19, 2024
that's literally the etymology of cauliflower... the 'caul' root means 'cabbage' and appears all over the place, like in 'kale' and 'Kohl'. they're the same plant
HomicidalChicken
+3
Level 43
May 29, 2016
Throwback to grade nine French! ... such terrible times. *shudders*
WanderingWalrus
+1
Level 82
May 31, 2016
There is no need to learn culinary French. If you are in a restaurant in France everything on the menu will be delicious by definition. All you have to do is to point at random and wait for a fantastic meal. Neantmoins, j'ai recu 24 sur 24 :)
determinedtobeatthis
+2
Level 68
Nov 20, 2021
As someone who doesn't speak French, I'd be hesitant to order fish, though... =)
partdavid
+4
Level 74
May 8, 2023
It's also not really true, of course; many would consider andouillete noisome, or even escargots or rognons d'agneau or steak haché depending on what you're used to, and these are common items. I've eaten cheval and pigeon, too, and they were delicious but you probably don't want to be surprised to get it.
SilverFlute
+2
Level 22
Jul 8, 2016
Escargots? Miam?
idontlikeit2
+1
Level 78
Dec 24, 2016
i kept on spelling wine as "vine". derp.
jajaco2017
+1
Level 56
Feb 11, 2017
got them all
divantilya
+1
Level 36
Mar 8, 2017
Pate de foie gras =

(paste) (of) (liver) (fat) or Paste made of fatty liver.

thecan
+1
Level 20
Apr 26, 2024
Or a more common way of saying, pate
Gabichou44
+4
Level 60
Feb 13, 2025
pâté and foie gras are two very different things...
Greenland
+1
Level 47
May 4, 2017
All with 2:51 left - and only did French to the age of 13
HugoBoss
+1
Level 19
Sep 14, 2017
I never listened in French class, but 100% and 3:10 left.

Maybe my subconscious was listening.

DwigtSchrute
+2
Level 53
Sep 25, 2017
Why only accept fries instead of "French fries" or "fried potatoes"?
divantilya
+3
Level 36
Oct 10, 2018
Because "Frites" means fried, not french fries.
AJ3
+1
Level 46
Nov 20, 2017
100% and 3:15 left, and I don't even learn French. I just signed up for this French learning website and learnt some basics for a couple of months earlier this year because I was bored, haha.
kenpo17
+10
Level 65
Dec 19, 2017
Anyone else messed up by the fact that "raspberr" is accepted, causing you to get an extra Y in your answer box?
Sifhraven
+2
Level 76
Jan 13, 2019
yea that was weird, I started questioning myself thinking I accidentality typed another y... cause the type ins allowed are often very weird and annoying, (thought you get used to it, eventhough I still always type in the full word, atleast now I remember to look up and delete letter after allmost every answer)
AlexThirkell
+3
Level 74
Jan 11, 2021
Yeah why on Earth is respberry being accepted without the Y? Strawberry had to be complete...
partdavid
+4
Level 74
May 8, 2023
my guess is that the pattern is supposed to be raspberr(ies|y) but ended up raspberr(|ies) or something.
MiracleMax
+1
Level 73
Mar 25, 2018
I don't, and never have, spoken a lick of French. I ended up with 19 purely from lots of culinary experience and extrapolating from Spanish.
Creo
+1
Level 48
Aug 14, 2018
I thought that Lapin was rabbit but I didn't know that people ate it.
Malbaby
+1
Level 70
Oct 11, 2018
You can't beat a good Rabbit pie: Plenty of vegetables and stock and cut up the rabbit and cook till tender, season to taste then add a nice crust and bake in oven till crust cooked....... yum
drlancy
+1
Level 56
Sep 14, 2018
Ugh, kept trying plurals: cherries, strawberries... Maybe allow those?
kitkat2137
+1
Level 60
Dec 22, 2025
The french versions are singular though
stone222
+1
Level 47
Oct 15, 2018
5 years of French in the 1960's finally paid off... what a shame it never worked when i tried to use my French in France...
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Dec 8, 2018
Got em all 2:46 to.spare (and not the best typer) and neither english nor french is my first language. So im happy with that :)

Funny how you can see people's priorities...wine coffee and cheese are the most guessed haha

CatcoolH
+2
Level 69
Jun 20, 2019
I'm actually doing this for the French badge, I'm lucky I just had this with my French lessons. :-)
AllOfSanMarino
+1
Level 68
Feb 9, 2021
Same here!
RoyaleEmma
+1
Level 19
Jul 1, 2019
Woof! Finally the test of food for my french lesson. Got em' all! (Also this is my first time commenting in quiz! :D )
BlackLab
+1
Level 66
Jul 1, 2019
I would be hard pressed to try poisson again. I learned my lesson the first time.
TGrob
+1
Level 67
Sep 18, 2019
Gateau is very often biscuit/cookie rather than cake.
kitkat2137
+1
Level 60
Dec 22, 2025
I don't think so, the first thing I (French) think of when I hear gâteau is cake, like a chocolate cake, a birthday cake... Of course we can use that word for biscuits and cookies too but we also call them biscuits and cookies, while there's no other word for cake that comes to mind
Kwasi
+1
Level 27
Nov 14, 2019
Citron also means lime in some contexts
kitkat2137
+1
Level 60
Dec 22, 2025
Yes but only if it's citron vert
SkuxxKiwi
+1
Level 39
Jan 2, 2020
Only got 15. Not too bad for me but I guess I forgot alot from my few years of learning French during intermediate!
PanSerbia7
+2
Level 23
Apr 21, 2020
WHAT??? RABBITS?! I HATE YOU!!!
itzrhubarb
+2
Level 28
Jun 17, 2020
british people eat rabbit too and it's the same in every country so why hate france so much?
TurkicKhaganate
+1
Level 36
Apr 14, 2022
based serb
itzrhubarb
+1
Level 28
Jun 17, 2020
Living in France for 2 years really paid off! 3:16 remaining ;)
bonk
+1
Level 76
Aug 8, 2020
Learning french since the second grade, as well as living in Canada may have helped my chances on this quiz...
Yoshimano
+3
Level 66
Aug 26, 2020
Ha! thanks for the free 5 points!

From a Frenchman.

Thanks!

TimLeGeographe
+1
Level 45
Dec 27, 2024
moi aussi je suis là pour les points mdr
Shamooski19
+1
Level 70
Nov 2, 2020
I don't know about you, but though I speak French, when I saw Poisson, my English side kicked in and thought Poison. Then I realized it was fish. Lol
kariban
+1
Level 24
Nov 14, 2020
you should accept "French Fries"
eppek
+1
Level 69
Dec 18, 2020
100th
Caro101
+1
Level 39
Mar 14, 2021
Finally something years of advanced french is good for :)
MyNameWasTaken
+1
Level 46
Mar 22, 2021
When I saw "Champignon" I immediately thought of champagne. Would've never thought it might be MUSHROOM lol.
stevediverse
+3
Level 86
Nov 20, 2021
The French word for "champagne" is "champagne" :)
6428574
+1
Level 32
Apr 2, 2021
i finished in just 2:32
aloepottt
+1
Level 53
Apr 22, 2021
helps to be canadian all our food labels are in french and english!
StarRanger7
+2
Level 21
May 27, 2021
I am here to complete the france badge :)
SadDuck
+1
Level 69
Jun 18, 2021
I think you should also accept preserves for jam.
GeoJosh
+2
Level 50
Jun 19, 2021
How dare you eat rabbit? *Rabbit cries in distance*
NineNine10
+1
Level 28
Jul 10, 2021
I Remember Watching On Youtube Someone Saying That Pain Means Bread In French lol
Sinope
+1
Level 55
Oct 15, 2021
Délicieux!
Marvo7
+2
Level 66
Nov 20, 2021
Interestingly, there are no green vegetables on this...
stevediverse
+1
Level 86
Nov 20, 2021
Especially since French for pea pods or snap peas is "mangetout" which literally means "eat everything"
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Nov 20, 2021
I like how pomme is apple and then pomme de terre is potato, I wanna learn French now
stevediverse
+1
Level 86
Nov 20, 2021
banane is banana and banane de terre is sweet potato
Gabichou44
+2
Level 60
Feb 13, 2025
nobody says banane de terre, we say patate douce which translates to sweet potato
Fingolia
+1
Level 51
Apr 3, 2022
I lived in Senegal for 2 years, my mother lived in France for a while, and I go to a French school, at 10 years old, I got 23 out of 24, I forgot foix.
jbro
+2
Level 76
May 17, 2022
potato translates to land apple.
EcceHomo
+1
Level 85
Feb 9, 2023
Same as Dutch - aardappel
NerdyPolyglot
+1
Level 44
May 6, 2025
same in several languages
giveMEname
+1
Level 48
Nov 16, 2022
I didn't get bread the first time lol
blahblahblahblak
+1
Level 27
May 4, 2023
I know only two French foods. They are qUoSa and bAgUaE
AlexThirkell
+4
Level 74
May 4, 2023
Still accepting "raspberr" as an answer, nearly 6 years after it was pointed out...
Julotek
+1
Level 65
May 4, 2023
I've never studied French as a foreign language but I got pretty easily 24/24.

Maybe it is because I'm French :')

sarielise
+1
Level 68
May 4, 2023
I love me some good ol’ “earth apples”
EmreBozkurt
+3
Level 67
Aug 7, 2023
"Son, what are you eating?"

"Pain"

Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Sep 14, 2023
Citron is a fruit in English too which also translates to citron in French. Please accept citron.
Gertie0031
+5
Level 57
Dec 12, 2023
Ah yes, my favorite food: water. Sometimes, I make myself water soup because I just feel like it. Baked water is when I have guests over. Fried water is usually for breakfast. Sliced water is just a little healthy snack. Sometimes I deep-fry water if I want. I'll take water candied, juiced, even if it is grilled to medium-rare. I love water.
Broseph
+1
Level 51
Dec 15, 2023
Egg is actually Œuf, not oeuf
Noe30slay
+2
Level 44
Mar 20, 2024
Nous les français, nous ne mangeons pas de lapins.

Certains oui mais très peu car c'est très honteux d'en manger.

brandybuck96
+2
Level 82
Nov 2, 2024
pourquoi? on mange du lapin au royaume-uni aussi, ce n'est pas anormal
Julotek
+2
Level 65
May 6, 2025
Heu si, on mange du lapin en France.

A la moutarde notamment. Et c'est pas du tout honteux, pourquoi vous dites ça ?

Arp2600
+1
Level 89
May 6, 2025
Bah, certains considèrent sans doute le lapin comme un animal familier maintenant, oubliant les millénaires précédents où il était chassé et élevé pour sa chair...
Clara04
+2
Level 43
May 11, 2025
parfois il y a du lapin dans les cantines de colllège-lycée. Il y en avait dans la mienne. Donc si, les français mangent du lapin.
FirstPrism
+1
Level 48
Jun 3, 2024
I love how half the quizzes needed for the France Badge are French language quizzes and the other half are about the geography of France :P.
LcnF
+3
Level 4
May 6, 2025
VIVE LA REPUBLIQUE, VIVE LA FRANCE !
Sapotrema
+1
Level 43
May 6, 2025
Would you also accept cookie our biscuit for "gâteau"?
Clara04
+3
Level 43
May 11, 2025
a gateau in french is a cake. We use the term Cookie for a cookie and biscuit for a biscuit but they are not the same as cakes. They have a different meaning and don't refer to the same things.
DaWaffle
+1
Level 55
Sep 28, 2025
rip rabbit owners
ArchonCanberra2K
+1
Level 28
Mar 9, 2026
I'm French of course this is stupidly easy ahh
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