phoque
French, noun/fɔk/
phoque is spelled P-H-O-Q-U-E (6 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Phoque is a French masculine noun meaning “seal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mammifère carnivore marin au corps fusiforme, aux membres antérieurs, très courts, transformés en palettes…”.
What does phoque mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineseal
- 2
masculinesealskin (fabric made from fur of seals)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mammifère carnivore marin au corps fusiforme, aux membres antérieurs, très courts, transformés en palettes natatoires et aux membres postérieurs qui ne peuvent se replier sous le ventre, et dont il existe plusieurs espèces, entre autres le phoque commun.
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 phoque
- phoques plural
- phoquesse
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce phoque?
- /fɔk/
- \fɔk\
- [fɔk]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to phoque
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is phoque in French?
phoque appears 2.0 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).