faon
French, noun/fɑ̃/
faon is spelled F-A-O-N (4 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 60,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Faon is a French masculine noun meaning “fawn (young deer)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit d’une biche (cas d’emploi le plus courant), d’une daine ou d’une chevrette”.
What does faon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefawn (young deer)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit d’une biche (cas d’emploi le plus courant), d’une daine ou d’une chevrette. 2. Petit de la biche, tous deux entendus comme symboles de vulnérabilité et d’innocence. 3. Se dit aussi du petit de tout autre ruminant sauvage.
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 faon
- faons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce faon?
- /fɑ̃/
- \fɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to faon
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is faon in French?
faon appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).