ouananiche
French, noun/wa.na.niʃ/
ouananiche is spelled O-U-A-N-A-N-I-C-H-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 168,321st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ouananiche is a French feminine noun meaning “a wananish / winninish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Race de saumon d’eau douce (Salmo salar)”.
What does ouananiche mean in English?
noun
- 1
Canadafemininea wananish / winninish
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Race de saumon d’eau douce (Salmo salar).
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 ouananiche
- ouananiches plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ouananiche?
- /wa.na.niʃ/
- \wa.na.niʃ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ouananiche in French?
ouananiche appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).