menon
French, noun/mə.nɔ̃/
menon is spelled M-E-N-O-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 105,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Menon is a French masculine noun meaning “bellwether (leading sheep of a flock, having a bell hung round its neck)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bouc de tête, muni de cloches, chargé de mener un troupeau, notamment durant une transhumance”.
What does menon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebellwether (leading sheep of a flock, having a bell hung round its neck)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bouc de tête, muni de cloches, chargé de mener un troupeau, notamment durant une transhumance. 2. Bouc châtré (en Provence seuls des boucs châtrés sont mêlés aux brebis). 3. Chèvre du Levant dont la peau sert à faire du maroquin. 4. Autrefois, personne chargée d’arranger les mariages aux mieux des intérêts des familles et de discuter de la dot.
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 menon
- menons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce menon?
- /mə.nɔ̃/
- \mə.nɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to menon
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is menon in French?
menon appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).