ouaille
French, noun/waj/
ouaille is spelled O-U-A-I-L-L-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 164,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ouaille is a French feminine noun meaning “flock (of sheep, or the people looked after by a Christian pastor)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Brebis”.
What does ouaille mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicfemininesheep
- 2
archaicfeminineewe
- 3
feminineflock (of sheep, or the people looked after by a Christian pastor)
adverb
- 1
informalyeah, yep, yup
interjection
- 1
informalyeah, yep, yup
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Brebis. 2. (Généralement au pluriel) Les chrétiens par rapport à leur pasteur, à leurs supérieurs spirituels.
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 ouaille
- ouailles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ouaille?
- /waj/
- /wɑj/
- \waj\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ouaille in French?
ouaille appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).