cocu
French, noun/kɔ.ky/
cocu is spelled C-O-C-U (4 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,925th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cocu is a French masculine noun meaning “cuckold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne dont le partenaire ou le conjoint est infidèle”.
What does cocu mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecuckold
adjective
- 1
cuckolded
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Dupé, trompé, victime d’infidélité conjugale. 2. (Par antiphrase) Chanceux, veinard.
noun: 1. Personne dont le partenaire ou le conjoint est infidèle. 2. Celui qui est trompé, dupé, le dindon de la farce. 3. Personne qui a de la chance. 4. Escargot (en France dans le Sud-Ouest), peut-être à cause des prétendues cornes dont on affuble parfois les maris trompés, ou à cause de sa coquille (ou coque).
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 cocu
- cocus plural
- cocue feminine
- cocues feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cocu?
- /kɔ.ky/
- \kɔ.ky\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cocu
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cocu in French?
cocu appears 1.4 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).