tatou
French, noun/ta.tu/
tatou is spelled T-A-T-O-U (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,824th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tatou is a French masculine noun meaning “armadillo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mammifère sauvage du super-ordre des xénarthres, famille des Dasypodidés, dont le corps est couvert d’un test…”.
What does tatou mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinearmadillo
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mammifère sauvage du super-ordre des xénarthres, famille des Dasypodidés, dont le corps est couvert d’un test écailleux en forme de cuirasse, et divisé en plusieurs bandes ou ceintures.
noun: 1. Couteau multifonction pliable français.
noun: 1. Tatouage.
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 tatou
- tatous plural
- tattou alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tatou?
- /ta.tu/
- [ta.tu]
- \ta.tu\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tatou
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tatou in French?
tatou appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).