chikungunya
French, noun/ʃi.kuŋ.ɡu.ɲa/
chikungunya is spelled C-H-I-K-U-N-G-U-N-Y-A (11 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 69,707th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chikungunya is a French masculine noun meaning “chikungunya” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Maladie infectieuse tropicale, due à un arbovirus, transmise par des moustiques du genre Aedes”.
What does chikungunya mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechikungunya
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Maladie infectieuse tropicale, due à un arbovirus, transmise par des moustiques du genre Aedes.
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 chikungunya?
- /ʃi.kuŋ.ɡu.ɲa/
- \ʃi.kuŋ.ɡu.ɲa\
- \ʃi.kun.ɡu.ɲa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chikungunya
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chikungunya in French?
chikungunya appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).