safou
French, noun/sa.fu/
safou is spelled S-A-F-O-U (5 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written French, the 221,532nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Safou is a French masculine noun meaning “the fruit of Dacryodes edulis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fruit du safoutier”.
What does safou mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethe fruit of Dacryodes edulis
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fruit du safoutier
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 safou
- safous plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce safou?
- /sa.fu/
- \sa.fu\
- [sa.fu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is safou in French?
safou appears about once in every 49 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).