mascaret
French, noun\mas.ka.ʁɛ\
mascaret is spelled M-A-S-C-A-R-E-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 100,007th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mascaret is a French masculine noun meaning “bore (of a tidal river)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vague qui remonte le cours d’un fleuve à son embouchure au moment des fortes marées d’équinoxe”.
What does mascaret mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebore (of a tidal river)
- 2
masculinestreaming crowd of people
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vague qui remonte le cours d’un fleuve à son embouchure au moment des fortes marées d’équinoxe. 2. Forme qui évoque la vague du mascaret. 3. Foule qui se rue à la manière d’un flot. 4. Raz de marée.
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 mascaret
- mascarets plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mascaret?
- \mas.ka.ʁɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mascaret
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mascaret in French?
mascaret appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).