passereaux
French, noun\pa.sʁo\
passereaux is spelled P-A-S-S-E-R-E-A-U-X (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 69,707th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Passereaux is a French masculine noun meaning “plural of passereau” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ordre d’oiseaux généralement petits, de mœurs arboricoles, chanteurs et bâtisseurs de nids, pourvus de pattes…”.
What does passereaux mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplural of passereau
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ordre d’oiseaux généralement petits, de mœurs arboricoles, chanteurs et bâtisseurs de nids, pourvus de pattes à quatre doigts.
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 passereaux
- Passereaux
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce passereaux?
- \pa.sʁo\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is passereaux in French?
passereaux appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).