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lobster

French, noun[lɔbstær]

lobster is spelled L-O-B-S-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 69,707th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lobster is a French masculine noun meaning “lobster (a crustacean of the Nephropidae, or Homaridae, family)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does lobster mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinelobster (a crustacean of the Nephropidae, or Homaridae, family)

  2. 2

    masculinea very large shrimp; a prawn

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of lobster

  • lobsters plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce lobster?

  • [lɔbstær]
  • [lɔbstə]
  • [lɑbstəɹ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is lobster in French?

lobster appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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