Funny French Group Chat Names

Five French group chat names a press, each with its meaning in English: funny sayings, class, club, friends, greetings.

Raconter des SaladesTo tell tall stories. Word for word: to tell salads.
Et Patati, et PatataAnd so on and so forth.
Passer du Coq à l'ÂneTo jump from one subject to another. Word for word: to pass from the rooster to the donkey.
Avoir la PêcheTo be full of get-up-and-go. Word for word: to have the peach.
En Faire Tout un FromageTo make a mountain out of a molehill. Word for word: to make a whole cheese of it.

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These French group chat names are real French words and sayings, from Coucou to Poisson d'Avril. The line under each one gives its meaning in English, checked in the Larousse French-English dictionary.

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Funny French sayings with a cat in them

Chat is the French word for cat, so six of the Funny French sayings carry the word chat: Donner sa Langue au Chat means to give up guessing, Pas un Chat means not a soul about. The other 20 include Raconter des Salades and C'est du Gâteau.

French group chat names for a class or a club

French class chats has 22 names from the classroom: Les Devoirs, La Dictée, Faute de Frappe, Le Subjonctif. French club chats has Le Ciné-club, La Pause-café and Les Habitués. For a team and not a chat, the French team names are a separate list with no name in common.

Questions and answers

What are funny French group chat names?

Les Carottes Sont Cuites (the game is up; word for word, the carrots are cooked), Rire comme une Baleine (to split one's sides laughing), Copains comme Cochons (as thick as thieves) and Minute, Papillon (hold your horses).

What are perfect French names for a group chat?

For friends, Les Potes (the pals) or Bras Dessus, Bras Dessous (arm in arm). For family, La Fratrie (the siblings) or La Maisonnée (the household). For any chat, Un Brin de Causette, a little chat.

What is a French group chat name for French class?

Le Brouillon (the rough draft), Par Cœur (by heart), Examen Blanc (a practice test) and Lever le Doigt (to put one's hand up) are four of the 22 names in French class chats.

All 116 names

Funny French sayings 26

Appeler un Chat un Chat To call a spade a spade. Word for word: to call a cat a cat.
Avoir la Pêche To be full of get-up-and-go. Word for word: to have the peach.
C'est du Gâteau It's a piece of cake. Word for word: it's cake.
Chat Perché Off-ground tag.
Comme Chien et Chat Always fighting, like cat and dog. Word for word: like dog and cat.
Copains comme Cochons As thick as thieves. Word for word: pals like pigs.
De Fil en Aiguille One thing leading to another. Word for word: from thread to needle.
Donner sa Langue au Chat To give up guessing. Word for word: to give one's tongue to the cat.
En Faire Tout un Fromage To make a mountain out of a molehill. Word for word: to make a whole cheese of it.
Et Patati, et Patata And so on and so forth.
Être dans la Lune To have one's head in the clouds. Word for word: to be in the moon.
Jeu de Mots A play on words, a pun.
Le Fou Rire A fit of the giggles.
Les Absents Ont Toujours Tort A proverb: the absent are always in the wrong.
Les Carottes Sont Cuites The game is up. Word for word: the carrots are cooked.
Mettre les Pieds dans le Plat To put one's foot in it.
Minute, Papillon Hold your horses! Word for word: minute, butterfly.
Motus et Bouche Cousue Mum's the word: not a word to anybody.
Pas un Chat Not a soul about. Word for word: not a cat.
Passer du Coq à l'Âne To jump from one subject to another. Word for word: to pass from the rooster to the donkey.
Poisson d'Avril April fool! Word for word: April fish.
Qui se Ressemble S'assemble Birds of a feather flock together.
Raconter des Salades To tell tall stories. Word for word: to tell salads.
Rire comme une Baleine To split one's sides laughing. Word for word: to laugh like a whale.
Tourner autour du Pot To beat around the bush. Word for word: to turn round the pot.
Un Chat dans la Gorge A frog in the throat. Word for word: a cat in the throat.

French class chats 22

Copie Blanche A blank paper, handed in.
Examen Blanc A practice test.
Faute d'Orthographe A spelling mistake.
Faute de Frappe A typing error.
L'Accent Aigu The acute accent.
La Cédille The cedilla.
La Conjugaison Conjugation.
La Dictée Dictation.
La Récré Recess, or break, in informal French.
La Rentrée The start of the school year.
Le Brouillon The rough draft.
Le Cartable The schoolbag.
Le Dico The dictionary, in informal French.
Le Passé Composé The perfect tense.
Le Subjonctif The subjunctive.
Le Tableau Noir The blackboard.
Le Tréma The diaeresis.
Les Correspondants The pen pals.
Les Devoirs Homework.
Les Révisions Revising for an exam.
Lever le Doigt To put one's hand up.
Par Cœur By heart.

French club chats 22

Jeu de Société A board game.
La Balade The walk, or the drive.
La Causerie An informal talk.
La Chorale The choir.
La Cotisation The membership dues.
La Pause-café The coffee break.
La Sortie The outing.
La Tablée A tableful of people.
La Tombola The raffle.
Le Brouhaha The hubbub.
Le Casse-croûte The snack, in informal French.
Le Ciné-club The film club.
Le Grand Écran The big screen.
Le Pique-nique The picnic.
Le Quatre-heures The afternoon snack, in informal French.
Le Spectacle The show.
Les Bouquins The books, in informal French.
Les Comptines The nursery rhymes.
Les Francophiles The Francophiles.
Les Habitués The regulars.
Les Sous-titres The subtitles.
Rat de Bibliothèque A bookworm.

Friends and family chats 22

Bras Dessus, Bras Dessous Arm in arm.
Comme les Doigts de la Main Like brothers. Word for word: like the fingers of the hand.
La Belle-famille The in-laws.
La Fratrie The siblings.
La Maisonnée The household.
Les Amis d'Enfance Childhood friends.
Les Blagueurs The jokers.
Les Coéquipiers The teammates.
Les Couche-tôt The ones who go to bed early.
Les Cousines The female cousins.
Les Farceurs The practical jokers.
Les Filles The girls.
Les Frangins The brothers, in informal French.
Les Gars The guys, in informal French.
Les Jumeaux The twins.
Les Lève-tard The late risers.
Les Lève-tôt The early risers.
Les Mamies The grannies, in informal French.
Les Pipelettes The gossips.
Les Potes The pals, in informal French.
Les Vacanciers The vacationers.
Les Voisins The neighbors.

Greetings and chatter 24

À Demain See you tomorrow.
À la Prochaine See you soon.
À Tout à l'Heure See you later.
Allez Hop Off we go.
Allô Hello, said on the phone.
Au Fait By the way.
Bisous Kisses, in informal French.
Bonne Nuit Goodnight.
Ça Roule Everything is going all right.
Chut Hush.
Coucou Hi.
Et Voilà And that is all there is to it.
Grosses Bises Love and kisses, at the end of a letter.
Le Bouche-à-oreille Word of mouth.
Le Papotage Chatter, chit-chat.
Les On-dit Hearsay.
Les Potins Gossip.
Ouf Phew.
Rien à Signaler Nothing to report.
Salut Hi, and also bye, in informal French.
Tope Là It's a deal.
Un Brin de Causette A little chat.
Volontiers Gladly.
Youpi Yippee.

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How this list was compiled: A list of 116 French words and sayings to use as group chat names, chosen by Wheel of Teams on 2026-10-09 and filed in five groups: Funny French sayings (26), French class chats (22), French club chats (22), Friends and family chats (22), Greetings and chatter (24). They are words of the French language. Each one was looked up in the Larousse French-English dictionary (https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais-anglais/) on 2026-10-08 or 2026-10-09: a single word in its own entry, a saying inside the entry of one of its words, with the gender, the accents and the hyphens the entry prints; a plural stands on the entry of its singular. The line under each name gives the meaning the entry gives, in our own words. Where a line adds a word-for-word reading, that reading is ours, from the senses Larousse gives for the nouns of the saying. A word or saying Larousse does not list was left out. So was a single word whose entry has a sense labelled vulgar or pejorative, and a saying that carries such a label itself. Every name was searched as a title on English Wikipedia, as it is printed and without its article, and was dropped when the page of that title is, or leads to, a film, a book, a comic, a song, an album, a ballet, a painting, a magazine, a radio station, a festival, a ship, a television series, a company or a person. A title that is only a disambiguation page, a place, a list of names, a traditional card game named after the same word, or a page about the thing the word names was no reason to drop a name. No name is on the French team names list of this site. Compared by script on 2026-10-09 with every other list on this site: no name is repeated. Nothing was checked against a trademark register. Licence: own work