matois
French, noun\ma.twa\
matois is spelled M-A-T-O-I-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 170,198th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Matois is a French masculine noun meaning “sly fox” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui est rusé sans le laisser paraître”.
What does matois mean in English?
adjective
- 1
sly (artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily)
noun
- 1
masculinesly fox
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Rusé, sans le laisser paraître.
noun: 1. Celui qui est rusé sans le laisser paraître.
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 matois
- matoise feminine
- matoises feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce matois?
- \ma.twa\
- \ma.twɑ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to matois
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is matois in French?
matois appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).