pantoum
French, noun\pɑ̃.tum\
pantoum is spelled P-A-N-T-O-U-M (7 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pantoum is a French masculine noun meaning “pantoum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Poème, dont la forme est empruntée aux Malais, qui est fait de quatrains à rimes croisées, dans lesquels le…”.
What does pantoum mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepantoum
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Poème, dont la forme est empruntée aux Malais, qui est fait de quatrains à rimes croisées, dans lesquels le deuxième et le quatrième vers sont les mêmes que le premier et le troisième de la strophe suivante.
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 pantoum
- pantoums plural
- pantoun
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pantoum?
- \pɑ̃.tum\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pantoum in French?
pantoum appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).