mégot
French, noun/me.ɡo/
mégot is spelled M-É-G-O-T (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,183rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mégot is a French masculine noun meaning “cigarette butt, fag end” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bout qui reste d’un cigare ou d’une cigarette quand on a fini de les fumer”.
What does mégot mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecigarette butt, fag end
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bout qui reste d’un cigare ou d’une cigarette quand on a fini de les fumer. 2. Cigarette ou cigare presque entièrement consumés.
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 mégot
- mégots plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mégot?
- /me.ɡo/
- \me.ɡo\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mégot
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mégot in French?
mégot 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).