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Québécois

/ˌkeɪbɛˈkwɑː/noun, adjective

Québécois is a noun meaning “A native or inhabitant of the province of Quebec, Canada or the Quebec City, Quebec” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Q-U-É-B-É-C-O-I-S, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does Québécois mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A native or inhabitant of the province of Quebec, Canada or the Quebec City, Quebec.

    I am a proud Québécois.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, from or relating to the province of Quebec, Canada or its variety of French.

    Canadians have mixed views concerning whether the Québécois people constitute a distinct nation.

adjective

as Quebecois
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of Québécois.

noun

as Quebecois
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of Québécois.

adjective

as Québecois
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of Québécois.

noun

as Québecois
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of Québécois.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce Québécois?

  • /ˌkeɪbɛˈkwɑː/
  • /ˌkeɪbɛˈkwɑːz/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Québécois.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of Québécois

  • more Quebecois comparative
  • most Quebecois superlative
  • Quebecois
  • Québecois
  • Québécoise

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Québécois?

Québécois appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,063rd 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).

Québécois in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
FrenchQuébécois, Québécoise (native or inhabitant of the province or city of…), québécois (of or relating to Quebec, its people, or its…)
GermanQuebecer, Quebecerin (native or inhabitant of the province or city of…)
Portuguesequebequense (native or inhabitant of the province or city of…)
Spanishquebequés, quebequesa, quebequense, quebequeño (DPD), quebecense (DPD) (native or inhabitant of the province or city of…), quebequeño / quebecense (DPD) (of or relating to Quebec, its people, or its…)

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 Québécois come from?

Borrowed from Canadian French Québécois.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).