okoumé
French, noun/ɔ.ku.me/
okoumé is spelled O-K-O-U-M-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 142,934th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Okoumé is a French masculine noun meaning “Aucoumea klaineana, an African hardwood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arbre de la famille des Burséracées originaire d’Afrique”.
What does okoumé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineAucoumea klaineana, an African hardwood
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Arbre de la famille des Burséracées originaire d’Afrique. 2. Bois de cet arbre.
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 okoumé
- okoumés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce okoumé?
- /ɔ.ku.me/
- \ɔ.ku.me\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is okoumé in French?
okoumé appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).