fennec
French, noun/fɛ.nɛk/
fennec is spelled F-E-N-N-E-C (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,044th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fennec is a French masculine noun meaning “fennec” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit renardcaractérisé par ses très grandes oreilles et qui vit essentiellement dans les zones désertiques…”.
What does fennec mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefennec
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit renardcaractérisé par ses très grandes oreilles et qui vit essentiellement dans les zones désertiques de l’Afrique du Nord. 2. algérien
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 fennec
- fennecs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fennec?
- /fɛ.nɛk/
- /fe.nɛk/
- \fɛ.nɛk\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fennec
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fennec in French?
fennec appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).