cancer
French, noun
cancer is spelled C-A-N-C-E-R (6 letters) and appears 46 times per million words in written French, the 1,809th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cancer is a French masculine noun meaning “cancer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Cancer is a different word: “Cancer (someone born with a Cancer star sign)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Maladie causée par une tumeur maligne”.
What does cancer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecancer
noun
- 1
femininemasculineCancer (someone born with a Cancer star sign)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est nuisible, ou malsain. 2. Du signe du Cancer.
noun: 1. Maladie causée par une tumeur maligne. 2. Ce qui est nuisible. 3. Un homme du signe du Cancer
noun: 1. Personne née sous le signe du Cancer.
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 cancer
- cancers plural
- Cancers plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cancer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cancer in French?
cancer appears 46 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).