francolin
/ˈfɹæŋkəlɪn/noun
francolin is a noun meaning “Any of various terrestrial birds of several genera in family Phasianidae, principally in tribe Gallini” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-N-C-O-L-I-N, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of francolin is francolins.
What does francolin mean?
noun
- 1
Any of various terrestrial birds of several genera in family Phasianidae, principally in tribe Gallini.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce francolin?
- /ˈfɹæŋkəlɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-francolin.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of francolin
- francolins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is francolin?
Francolin appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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).
Francolin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense partridge:
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 francolin come from?
From French francolin, from Italian francolino, of unknown origin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).