longane
French, noun/lɔ̃.ɡan/
longane is spelled L-O-N-G-A-N-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 98 million words in written French, the 308,115th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Longane is a French masculine noun meaning “longan (fruit)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fruit du longanier (Dimocarpus longan), ressemblant au litchi, dont la peau extérieure, fine et dure, se pèle…”.
What does longane mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelongan (fruit)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fruit du longanier (Dimocarpus longan), ressemblant au litchi, dont la peau extérieure, fine et dure, se pèle facilement, et dont l’arille translucide très sucrée entoure un gros noyau noir, dur et brillant.
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 longane
- longanes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce longane?
- /lɔ̃.ɡan/
- \lɔ̃.ɡan\
- [lɔ̃.ɡan]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to longane
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is longane in French?
longane appears about once in every 98 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).