mégafaune
French, noun/me.ɡa.fon/
mégafaune is spelled M-É-G-A-F-A-U-N-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written French, the 205,184th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mégafaune is a French feminine noun meaning “megafauna” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble des gros animaux visibles à l'œil nu (de plus de 80 mm) d’un milieu”.
What does mégafaune mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemegafauna
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ensemble des gros animaux visibles à l'œil nu (de plus de 80 mm) d’un milieu.
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 mégafaune
- mégafaunes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mégafaune?
- /me.ɡa.fon/
- \me.ɡa.fon\
- [me.ɡa.fon]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mégafaune
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mégafaune in French?
mégafaune appears about once in every 42 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).