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ongulé

French, noun/ɔ̃.ɡy.le/

ongulé is a French masculine noun meaning “ungulate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mammifère placentaire dont la dernière phalange du doigt ou des doigts est enveloppée d’un sabot”.

What does ongulé mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineungulate

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Dont le pied est terminé par un sabot continu, ou divisé seulement en deux parties.

noun: 1. Mammifère placentaire dont la dernière phalange du doigt ou des doigts est enveloppée d’un sabot.

noun: 1. Enveloppe cornée formant le sabot des ongulés

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 ongulé

  • ongulés plural
  • ongulée singular feminine
  • ongulées plural feminine
  • ongules plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce ongulé?

  • /ɔ̃.ɡy.le/
  • \ɔ̃.ɡy.le\
  • \ɔ̃.ɡyl\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to ongulé

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is ongulé in French?

ongulé appears about once in every 50 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).