pawnee
French, noun/po.ni/
pawnee is spelled P-A-W-N-E-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 105,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pawnee is a French masculine noun meaning “the Pawnee language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Langue amérindienne en voie d’extinction de la famille des langues caddoanes du sous-groupe des langues…”.
What does pawnee mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethe Pawnee language
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Langue amérindienne en voie d’extinction de la famille des langues caddoanes du sous-groupe des langues caddoanes du Nord.
noun: 1. Amérindien appartenant à la tribu des Pawnees.
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 pawnee
- pawni
- Pawnees plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pawnee?
- /po.ni/
- /pa.ni/
- /pɑ.ni/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pawnee in French?
pawnee appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).