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québécois

French, adjective

québécois is a French adjective meaning “of Quebec” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Québécois is a different word: “native or inhabitant of the province of Quebec, Canada or the Quebec…”. With an accent, québecois is a different word: “alternative form of québécois”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif à la province de Québec, à ses habitants et habitantes, à leur langue ou à leur culture”.

What does québécois mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    of Quebec

  2. 2

    of the Québécois people, French Canadian

    Le Québec est une province du Canada dont les frontières correspondent au territoire de la nation québécoise.

noun

as Québécois
  1. 1

    masculinenative or inhabitant of the province of Quebec, Canada or the Quebec City, Quebec (usually male)

adjective

as québecois
  1. 1

    alternative form of québécois

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Relatif à la province de Québec, à ses habitants et habitantes, à leur langue ou à leur culture. 2. Relatif à la ville de Québec.

noun: 1. Variété de la langue française parlée au Québec.

noun: 1. Citoyen de la province de Québec. 2. Citoyen de la ville de Québec. → voir Québecquois

adjective: 1. Variante de québécois.

noun: 1. Variante de Québécois.

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 québécois

  • Québécoise feminine
  • québécoise feminine
  • québécoises feminine plural
  • québecois alternative
  • québ alternative Canada clipping
  • québecoise feminine
  • québecoises feminine plural
  • Québécois
  • gentilés
  • Québecoise feminine

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to québécois

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is québécois in French?

québécois appears 56 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).