kumquat
French, noun\kum.kwat\
kumquat is spelled K-U-M-Q-U-A-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 150,781st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kumquat is a French masculine noun meaning “kumquat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom vernaculaire de petits arbres fruitiers, de la famille des Rutacées (Rutaceae), originaire de Chine et de…”.
What does kumquat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinekumquat
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom vernaculaire de petits arbres fruitiers, de la famille des Rutacées (Rutaceae), originaire de Chine et de Malaisie du genre Citrus pour certains botanistes ou du genre Fortunella pour d’autres et anciennement classé dans le genre Citrofortunella. 2. Fruit de cet arbre, appartenant à la famille des agrumes, plus petit qu’une orange, souvent consommé confit.
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 kumquat
- kumquats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kumquat?
- \kum.kwat\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kumquat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kumquat in French?
kumquat 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).