canidés
French, noun/ka.ni.de/
canidés is spelled C-A-N-I-D-É-S (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,980th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Canidés is a French masculine noun meaning “Canidae” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of canidé. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Famille d’animaux de l’ordre des Carnivores comprenant le chien, le loup, le chacal, le coyote, le dingo..”.
What does canidés mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineCanidae
- 2
masculineplural of canidé
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Famille d’animaux de l’ordre des Carnivores comprenant le chien, le loup, le chacal, le coyote, le dingo...
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.
How do you pronounce canidés?
- /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.
How common is canidés in French?
canidés appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).