cajeput
French, noun/kaʒ.pyt/
cajeput is spelled C-A-J-E-P-U-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written French, the 236,816th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cajeput is a French masculine noun meaning “cajuput, a tree of species Melaleuca leucadendra or M. cajuputi, of Australia and southeast Asia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom usuel de Melaleuca cajuputi, arbre de la famille des Myrtaceae (Myrtacées), originaire du sud de l’Asie…”.
What does cajeput mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecajuput, a tree of species Melaleuca leucadendra or M. cajuputi, of Australia and southeast Asia
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom usuel de Melaleuca cajuputi, arbre de la famille des Myrtaceae (Myrtacées), originaire du sud de l’Asie et du nord de l’Australie. On en tire une huile essentielle. 2. Huile volatile fournie par la distillation des feuilles et des rameaux de l’arbuste.
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 cajeput
- cajeputs plural
- caieput
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cajeput?
- /kaʒ.pyt/
- \ka.ʒə.pyt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cajeput in French?
cajeput appears about once in every 56 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).