mucus
French, noun/my.kys/
mucus is spelled M-U-C-U-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 39,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mucus is a French masculine noun meaning “mucus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mucosité, sécrétion visqueuse et translucide, produite par une muqueuse”.
What does mucus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemucus
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mucosité, sécrétion visqueuse et translucide, produite par une muqueuse.
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.
How do you pronounce mucus?
- /my.kys/
- \my.kys\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mucus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mucus in French?
mucus 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).