cahot
French, noun/ka.o/
cahot is spelled C-A-H-O-T (5 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 141,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cahot is a French masculine noun meaning “jolt, bump” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Saut que fait un véhicule en roulant sur un chemin pierreux ou mal uni”.
What does cahot mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejolt, bump
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Saut que fait un véhicule en roulant sur un chemin pierreux ou mal uni. 2. Chose ne s’étant pas bien passée, mécompte.
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 cahot
- cahots plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cahot?
- /ka.o/
- \ka.o\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cahot
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cahot in French?
cahot appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).