canidé
French, noun/ka.ni.de/
canidé is spelled C-A-N-I-D-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 90,544th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Canidé is a French masculine noun meaning “a member of the Canidae family, canid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mammifère digitigrade de l’ordre des Carnivores, de la famille des Canidae comprenant notamment les chiens…”.
What does canidé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea member of the Canidae family, canid
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de canidé. 2. Famille comprenant les chacals, les chiens, les renards et les loups.
adjective: 1. De la famille du chien.
noun: 1. Mammifère digitigrade de l’ordre des Carnivores, de la famille des Canidae comprenant notamment les chiens, les loups et les renards.
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 canidé
- canidés plural
- Canidés plural
- canidée singular feminine
- canidées plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce canidé?
- /ka.ni.de/
- \ka.ni.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to canidé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is canidé in French?
canidé appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).