axis
French, noun/ak.si/
axis is spelled A-X-I-S (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,716th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Axis is a French masculine noun meaning “synonym of cerf axis (“chital”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Deuxième vertèbre cervicale”.
What does axis mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesynonym of cerf axis (“chital”)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Deuxième vertèbre cervicale. 2. Cervidé asiatique, genre comportant quatre espèces de cerfs.
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.
How do you pronounce axis?
- /ak.si/
- \ak.sis\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is axis in French?
axis appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).