spinnaker
French, noun/spi.ne.kœʁ/
spinnaker is spelled S-P-I-N-N-A-K-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 168,321st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spinnaker is a French masculine noun meaning “spinnaker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Voile d'avant très légère et très creuse hissée aux allures portantes”.
What does spinnaker mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinespinnaker
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Voile d'avant très légère et très creuse hissée aux allures portantes.
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 spinnaker
- spinnakers plural
- spinaker
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce spinnaker?
- /spi.ne.kœʁ/
- /spi.na.kɛʁ/
- \spi.na.kœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is spinnaker in French?
spinnaker appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).