rutabaga
French, noun/ʁy.ta.ba.ɡa/
rutabaga is a French masculine noun meaning “swede, rutabaga (yellow root of Brassica napus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Brassicacée, originaire des pays du Nord, cultivée pour sa racine blanche ou jaune destinée à l’alimentation…”.
What does rutabaga mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineswede, rutabaga (yellow root of Brassica napus)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Brassicacée, originaire des pays du Nord, cultivée pour sa racine blanche ou jaune destinée à l’alimentation animale et humaine.
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 rutabaga
- rutabagas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rutabaga?
- /ʁy.ta.ba.ɡa/
- \ʁy.ta.ba.ɡa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rutabaga
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rutabaga in French?
rutabaga 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).