gigot
French, noun/ʒi.ɡo/
gigot is spelled G-I-G-O-T (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 41,708th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gigot is a French masculine noun meaning “leg (of some animals kept or hunted for their meat)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cuisse de mouton, d’agneau, de chevreuil séparée du corps de l’animal pour être mangée. → voir cuissot”.
What does gigot mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineleg (of some animals kept or hunted for their meat)
gigot d'agneau
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cuisse de mouton, d’agneau, de chevreuil séparée du corps de l’animal pour être mangée. → voir cuissot 2. Cuisse, jambe. 3. Manche (féminin) longue, bouffante en haut du bras et se rétrécissant après le coude pour être très ajustée au poignet (par ellipse de manche gigot ou manche à gigot ou manche à la gigot).
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 gigot
- gigots plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gigot?
- /ʒi.ɡo/
- \ʒi.ɡo\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gigot
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gigot in French?
gigot 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).