fandango
French, noun/fan.daɲ.ɡo/
fandango is spelled F-A-N-D-A-N-G-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 101,144th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fandango is a French masculine noun meaning “fandango” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Danse espagnole, d’origine andalouse, exécutée au son de la guitare par deux hommes qui accompagnent leurs…”.
What does fandango mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefandango
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Danse espagnole, d’origine andalouse, exécutée au son de la guitare par deux hommes qui accompagnent leurs mouvements du jeu des castagnettes. 2. Air musical qui accompagne cette danse.
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 fandango
- fandangos plural
- fandangue alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fandango?
- /fan.daɲ.ɡo/
- \fɑ̃.dɑ̃.ɡo\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fandango
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fandango in French?
fandango appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).