macaque
French, noun/ma.kak/
macaque is spelled M-A-C-A-Q-U-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,148th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Macaque is a French masculine noun meaning “macaque” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de singes originaires d'Asie, de la sous-famille des cercopithécinés à tête plate et à queue courte”.
What does macaque mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemacaque
- 2
masculinemonkey
- 3
masculineclown
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre de singes originaires d'Asie, de la sous-famille des cercopithécinés à tête plate et à queue courte.
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 macaque
- macaques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce macaque?
- /ma.kak/
- \ma.kak\
- [ma.kak]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to macaque
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is macaque in French?
macaque 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).