cowboy
French, noun/kaw.bɔj/
cowboy is spelled C-O-W-B-O-Y (6 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,679th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cowboy is a French masculine noun meaning “post-1990 spelling of cow-boy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de cow-boy ^([1])”.
What does cowboy mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerarepost-1990 spelling of cow-boy
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de cow-boy ^([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 cowboy
- cowboys plural
- cowgirl feminine
- cow-boy
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cowboy?
- /kaw.bɔj/
- /ko.bɔj/
- \ko.bɔj\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cowboy
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cowboy in French?
cowboy appears 2.3 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).