nandou
French, noun/nɑ̃.du/
nandou is spelled N-A-N-D-O-U (6 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written French, the 244,837th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nandou is a French masculine noun meaning “rhea” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Oiseau paléognathe apparenté à l’autruche, incapable de voler, et appartenant à l’ordre des rhéiformes et au…”.
What does nandou mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerhea
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Oiseau paléognathe apparenté à l’autruche, incapable de voler, et appartenant à l’ordre des rhéiformes et au genre Rhea, dont il existe deux espèces distribuées en Amérique du Sud au sud de l’Équateur : le nandou d’Amérique et le nandou de Darwin.
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 nandou
- nandous plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nandou?
- /nɑ̃.du/
- \nɑ̃.du\
- [nɑ̃.du]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to nandou
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nandou in French?
nandou appears about once in every 60 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).