sapajou
French, noun\sa.pa.ʒu\
sapajou is spelled S-A-P-A-J-O-U (7 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written French, the 198,467th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sapajou is a French masculine noun meaning “sapajou” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de singe d’Amérique, de la famille des cébidés, qui a la queue prenante et qui est fort petit”.
What does sapajou mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesapajou
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre de singe d’Amérique, de la famille des cébidés, qui a la queue prenante et qui est fort petit. 2. Petit homme laid et ridicule.
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 sapajou
- sapajous plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sapajou?
- \sa.pa.ʒu\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sapajou in French?
sapajou appears about once in every 39 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).