dronte
French, noun/dʁɔ̃t/
dronte is spelled D-R-O-N-T-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 62 million words in written French, the 247,574th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dronte is a French masculine noun meaning “dodo (bird)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce endémique d’oiseau peuplant autrefois l’île de la Réunion et l’île Maurice, aujourd’hui éteinte”.
What does dronte mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedodo (bird)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espèce endémique d’oiseau peuplant autrefois l’île de la Réunion et l’île Maurice, aujourd’hui éteinte.
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 dronte
- drontes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dronte?
- /dʁɔ̃t/
- \dʁɔ̃t\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dronte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dronte in French?
dronte appears about once in every 62 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).