octuor
French, noun/ɔk.tɥɔʁ/
octuor is spelled O-C-T-U-O-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 144,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Octuor is a French masculine noun meaning “octet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble musical de huit instrumentistes qui jouent les différentes parties d’un même morceau”.
What does octuor mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineoctet
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ensemble musical de huit instrumentistes qui jouent les différentes parties d’un même morceau. 2. Partition à huit parties simultanées, destinée à être interprétée par huit solistes, avec ou sans accompagnement.
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 octuor
- octuors plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce octuor?
- /ɔk.tɥɔʁ/
- \ɔk.ty.ɔʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to octuor
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is octuor in French?
octuor appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).