cunette
French, noun/ky.nɛt/
cunette is spelled C-U-N-E-T-T-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written French, the 242,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cunette is a French feminine noun meaning “cunette” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Canal de fond d’une fortification”.
What does cunette mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecunette
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Canal de fond d’une fortification. 2. Rigole d'écoulement des eaux de surface. 3. Canal d'évacuation le long d’une chaussée ou d’une voie ferrée. 4. Collecteur des eaux équipé d’une ou de deux trappes de visite.
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 cunette
- cunettes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cunette?
- /ky.nɛt/
- \ky.nɛt\
- [ky.nɛt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cunette in French?
cunette appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).