souk
French, noun/suk/
souk is spelled S-O-U-K (4 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 29,273rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Souk is a French masculine noun meaning “souq (Arabic market)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Quartier commerçant d’une ville arabe, chaque rue étant spécialisée dans un type de produits”.
What does souk mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesouq (Arabic market)
- 2
colloquialmasculinemess, chaos
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Quartier commerçant d’une ville arabe, chaque rue étant spécialisée dans un type de produits. 2. Grand désordre.
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 souk
- souks plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce souk?
- /suk/
- \suk\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to souk
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is souk in French?
souk appears 1.1 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).