fenouil
French, noun/fə.nuj/
fenouil is spelled F-E-N-O-U-I-L (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 43,335th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fenouil is a French masculine noun meaning “fennel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante aromatique, de la famille des Apiacées, qui porte des fleurs jaunes et qui croît surtout dans le midi…”.
What does fenouil mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefennel
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plante aromatique, de la famille des Apiacées, qui porte des fleurs jaunes et qui croît surtout dans le midi de l’Europe, de nom scientifique Foeniculum vulgare. 2. Feuilles de cette plante utilisées comme aromate. 3. Base renflée des pétioles, utilisée comme un légume. 4. Il se prend aussi pour la graine de la même plante.
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 fenouil
- fenouils plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fenouil?
- /fə.nuj/
- \fə.nuj\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fenouil
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fenouil in French?
fenouil 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).