canid
/ˈkeɪnəd/noun
canid is a noun meaning “Any member of the family Canidae, including canines (dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals) and vulpines (foxes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-N-I-D, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of canid is canids.
What does canid mean?
noun
- 1
Any member of the family Canidae, including canines (dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals) and vulpines (foxes).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce canid?
- /ˈkeɪnəd/
- /ˈkænəd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-canid.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-canid2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of canid
- canids plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is canid?
Canid appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Canid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense member of Canidae:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | canidé |
| German | Hund (sensu lato), Canide, Hundeartiger |
| Portuguese | canídeo |
| Spanish | cánido |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does canid come from?
By surface analysis, an appellativization from Canid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).