cannabis
French, noun/ka.na.bis/
cannabis is spelled C-A-N-N-A-B-I-S (8 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written French, the 5,966th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cannabis is a French masculine noun meaning “cannabis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chanvre en tant que plante utilisée pour ses propriétés psychoactives”.
What does cannabis mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecannabis
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Chanvre en tant que plante utilisée pour ses propriétés psychoactives. 2. Cannabine, la substance psychotrope extraite de cette plante.
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 cannabis?
- /ka.na.bis/
- \ka.na.bis\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cannabis
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cannabis in French?
cannabis appears 12 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).