cagoule
French, noun
cagoule is spelled C-A-G-O-U-L-E (7 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written French, the 23,795th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cagoule is a French feminine noun meaning “cowl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, cagoulé is a different word: “masked by a balaclava”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sorte de vêtement de moine, ample et sans manches. Cuculle”.
What does cagoule mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecowl
- 2
femininebalaclava
adjective
- 1
masked by a balaclava
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sorte de vêtement de moine, ample et sans manches. Cuculle. 2. Capuchon percé d’ouvertures à la place des yeux et à celle de la bouche, ou au niveau du visage. Elle est destinée à protéger le visage (froid, flamme, projections, etc.) ou à préserver l’anonymat 3. Sorte de capuchon pour couvrir entièrement la tête et en aveugler le porteur. 4. Protection faciale utilisée pour la soudure.
adjective: 1. Qui porte une cagoule.
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 cagoule
- cagoules plural
- cagoulée feminine
- cagoulés masculine plural
- cagoulées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cagoule
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cagoule in French?
cagoule appears 1.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).