gaïac
French, noun/ɡa.jak/
gaïac is spelled G-A-Ï-A-C (5 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 152,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gaïac is a French masculine noun meaning “guaiacum, lignum vitae” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arbre d’Amérique, de la famille des Rutacées, dont le bois dur, pesant et résineux est très recherché”.
What does gaïac mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineguaiacum, lignum vitae
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Arbre d’Amérique, de la famille des Rutacées, dont le bois dur, pesant et résineux est très recherché.
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 gaïac
- gaïacs plural
- gayac
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gaïac?
- /ɡa.jak/
- \ɡa.jak\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gaïac
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gaïac in French?
gaïac appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).