nuque
French, noun/nyk/
nuque is spelled N-U-Q-U-E (5 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written French, the 11,545th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nuque is a French feminine noun meaning “nape, back of the neck” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie dorsale du cou”.
What does nuque mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininenape, back of the neck
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie dorsale du cou. 2. Partie de la chevelure à l’arrière du cou. 3. Partie arrière de la tourelle d’un char.
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 nuque
- nuques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nuque?
- /nyk/
- \nyk\
- [nyk]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to nuque
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nuque in French?
nuque appears 4.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).