fauconneau
French, noun/fo.kɔ.no/
fauconneau is spelled F-A-U-C-O-N-N-E-A-U (10 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written French, the 202,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fauconneau is a French masculine noun meaning “eyas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit faucon”.
What does fauconneau mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineeyas
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit faucon. 2. Petite pièce d’artillerie ancienne. 3. Dispositif servant à élever les fardeaux.
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 fauconneau
- fauconneaux plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fauconneau?
- /fo.kɔ.no/
- \fo.kɔ.no\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fauconneau in French?
fauconneau appears about once in every 41 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).