oued
French, noun/wɛd/
oued is spelled O-U-E-D (4 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 21,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oued is a French masculine noun meaning “wadi (a valley, gully, or stream-bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cours d’eau d'Afrique du Nord et des régions semi-désertiques, à régime hydrologique très irrégulier”.
What does oued mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewadi (a valley, gully, or stream-bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cours d’eau d'Afrique du Nord et des régions semi-désertiques, à régime hydrologique très irrégulier.
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 oued
- oueds plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce oued?
- /wɛd/
- \wɛd\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to oued
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is oued in French?
oued appears 1.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).