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corégone

French, noun/kɔ.ʁe.ɡɔn/

corégone is spelled C-O-R-É-G-O-N-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written French, the 202,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Corégone is a French masculine noun meaning “whitefish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Poisson d’eau douce lacustre de la famille des salmonidés”.

What does corégone mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinewhitefish

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Poisson d’eau douce lacustre de la famille des salmonidés. 2. Poisson du genre Saurus ^([1]).

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 corégone

  • corégones plural

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

How do you pronounce corégone?

  • /kɔ.ʁe.ɡɔn/
  • \kɔ.ʁe.ɡɔn\

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

How common is corégone in French?

corégone appears about once in every 41 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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