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fanon

French, noun/fa.nɔ̃/

fanon is spelled F-A-N-O-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 46,652nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fanon is a French masculine noun meaning “dewlap (pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, lizard, or other animal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Peau qui pend sous la gorge d’un taureau, d’un bœuf, d’une oie”.

What does fanon mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinedewlap (pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, lizard, or other animal)

  2. 2

    masculinewattle (wrinkled fold of skin hanging from the neck of a turkey or other bird)

  3. 3

    masculinebaleen plate; (in the plural) baleen (bony material that makes up the plates in the mouth of a baleen whale)

  4. 4

    masculinefeather, feathering (long hair on the lower legs of a horse)

  5. 5

    masculinebracelet on the right arm

  6. 6

    masculinefanon (vestment reserved for the Pope)

  7. 7

    masculinefanon (part of a bishops mitre)

  8. 8

    masculinetabs on a banner or pennant

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Peau qui pend sous la gorge d’un taureau, d’un bœuf, d’une oie. 2. Morceau de peau rouge qui pend sous le cou de certains animaux, tels que le dindon. 3. Morceau de peau qui pend sous le menton de certains êtres humains. 4. Lames cornées qui garnissent transversalement le palais de la baleine.

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 fanon

  • fanons plural

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

How do you pronounce fanon?

  • /fa.nɔ̃/
  • \fa.nɔ̃\

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

English words that translate to fanon

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is fanon in French?

fanon appears about once in every 2 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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