aboi
French, noun/a.bwa/
aboi is spelled A-B-O-I (4 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written French, the 212,128th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aboi is a French masculine noun meaning “the bark of a dog” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cri du chien”.
What does aboi mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicmasculinethe bark of a dog
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cri du chien. 2. Cris de la meute qui entoure la bête chassée dans une chasse à courre. 3. Moment où la bête pourchassée s’arrête. 4. Dernière extrémité.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aboi
- abois plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aboi?
- /a.bwa/
- \a.bwa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aboi in French?
aboi appears about once in every 45 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).