scinque
French, noun/sɛ̃k/
scinque is spelled S-C-I-N-Q-U-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written French, the 166,446th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scinque is a French masculine noun meaning “skink” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lézard de la famille des scincidés qui compte des centaines d’espèces et dont la structuration phylogénétique…”.
What does scinque mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineskink
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lézard de la famille des scincidés qui compte des centaines d’espèces et dont la structuration phylogénétique semble très complexe.
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 scinque
- scinques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce scinque?
- /sɛ̃k/
- \sɛ̃k\
- [sɛ̃k]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to scinque
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is scinque in French?
scinque appears about once in every 27 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).