suricate
French, noun/sy.ʁi.kat/
suricate is spelled S-U-R-I-C-A-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 107,057th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Suricate is a French masculine noun meaning “meerkat (mammal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit mammifère carnivore, de la famille des mangoustes vivant dans le sud de l’Afrique”.
What does suricate mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemeerkat (mammal)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit mammifère carnivore, de la famille des mangoustes vivant dans le sud de l’Afrique.
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 suricate
- suricates plural
- surikate alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce suricate?
- /sy.ʁi.kat/
- \sy.ʁi.kat\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to suricate
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is suricate in French?
suricate appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).