béké
French, adjective/be.ke/
béké is spelled B-É-K-É (4 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 173,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Béké is a French adjective meaning “Describing a person of white, French descent from the French Antilles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif à la population des colons blancs antillais esclavagistes”.
What does béké mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Describing a person of white, French descent from the French Antilles
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Créole Antillais, descendant direct des premiers colons blancs esclavagistes.
adjective: 1. Relatif à la population des colons blancs antillais esclavagistes.
noun: 1. Créole antillais, descendant direct des premiers colons blancs esclavagistes.
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 béké
- békée feminine
- békés masculine plural
- békées feminine plural
- béquet
- Békés plural
- Békée feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce béké?
- /be.ke/
- \be.ke\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is béké in French?
béké appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).