casoar
French, noun/ka.zɔ.aʁ/
casoar is spelled C-A-S-O-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 118,416th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Casoar is a French masculine noun meaning “cassowary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre d'oiseaux paléognathes coureurs et inaptes au vol, comprenant trois espèces distribuées en Indonésie…”.
What does casoar mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecassowary
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre d'oiseaux paléognathes coureurs et inaptes au vol, comprenant trois espèces distribuées en Indonésie, en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée et en Australie, et dont la tête est couverte d’une espèce de casque osseux et dont le plumage ressemble à du crin. 2. Plumet ornant le shako des élèves de l'École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr.
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 casoar
- casoars plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce casoar?
- /ka.zɔ.aʁ/
- \ka.zɔ.aʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to casoar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is casoar in French?
casoar appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).