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corail

French, noun/kɔ.ʁaj/

corail is spelled C-O-R-A-I-L (6 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written French, the 16,835th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Corail is a French masculine noun meaning “coral (an aquatic organism living in maritime colonies)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Animal marin, microscopique et symbiotique vivant en colonie et construisant le récif corallien”.

What does corail mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecoral (an aquatic organism living in maritime colonies)

  2. 2

    masculinecoral (precious material of those dwellings, harvested mainly for decorative and collectionable uses)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Animal marin, microscopique et symbiotique vivant en colonie et construisant le récif corallien. 2. Récif constitué par les colonies de coraux ou leurs restes. 3. Cnidaire de la Méditerranée au squelette rouge et a la forme d’un arbuste plus ou moins rameux et d’une extrême dureté. Son appellation binomiale est : Corallium rubrum. 4. Matière calcaire issue du squelette du cnidaire Corallium rubrum utilisée en joaillerie.

noun: 1. Substance rouge, ou le devenant à la cuisson, présente à l’intérieur de certains mollusques et crustacés, comme la coquille Saint-Jacques et le crabe.

noun: 1. Couleur rouge vif tirant sur le orangé #E73E01

adjective: 1. D'une couleur rappelant celle du corail.

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 corail

  • coraux plural
  • corails plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce corail?

  • /kɔ.ʁaj/
  • \kɔ.ʁaj\
  • [kɔ.ʁaj]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to corail

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is corail in French?

corail appears 2.8 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).

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