copycat
French, noun/kɔ.pi.ka/
copycat is spelled C-O-P-Y-C-A-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 107,057th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Copycat is a French masculine noun meaning “copycat criminal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tueur imitant le modus operandi d'un serial killer”.
What does copycat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecopycat criminal
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tueur imitant le modus operandi d'un serial killer.
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 copycat
- copycats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce copycat?
- /kɔ.pi.ka/
- /kɔ.pi.kat/
- \ko.pi.kat\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to copycat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is copycat in French?
copycat appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).