caribou
French, noun/ka.ʁi.bu/
caribou is spelled C-A-R-I-B-O-U (7 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,948th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caribou is a French masculine noun meaning “caribou” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom du renne sauvage”.
What does caribou mean in English?
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom du renne sauvage. 2. Nom donné aux mousses dont le caribou se nourrit. 3. Boisson composée de vin rouge et d’alcool fort.
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 caribou
- caribous plural
- cariboux dated obsolete
- caribu dated obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce caribou?
- /ka.ʁi.bu/
- \ka.ʁi.bu\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to caribou
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is caribou in French?
caribou appears 1.0 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).