jaguar
French, noun/ʒa.ɡwaʁ/
jaguar is spelled J-A-G-U-A-R (6 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written French, the 17,650th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jaguar is a French masculine noun meaning “jaguar (cat)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Grand mammifère carnivore de la famille des félidés en voie de disparition mais que l’on peut rencontrer du…”.
What does jaguar mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejaguar (cat)
- 2
masculineJaguar (Mac OS 10.2)
noun
- 1
femininejaguar (car)
- 2
feminineJaguar (British car manufacturer)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Grand mammifère carnivore de la famille des félidés en voie de disparition mais que l’on peut rencontrer du Mexique au Brésil. Nom scientifique : Panthera onca. Son pelage est fauve moucheté de taches noires ou totalement noir (jaguar noir). Le jaguar était un symbole divin pour de nombreuses populations précolombiennes du Mexique.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de Jaguar, l’automobile de la marque Jaguar.
noun: 1. Automobile de la marque Jaguar.
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 jaguar
- jaguars plural
- jaguar
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce jaguar?
- /ʒa.ɡwaʁ/
- \ʒa.ɡwaʁ\
- [ʒa.ɡwaʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to jaguar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is jaguar in French?
jaguar appears 2.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).