tégu
French, noun/te.ɡy/
tégu is spelled T-É-G-U (4 letters) and appears about once in every 81 million words in written French, the 282,260th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tégu is a French masculine noun meaning “tegu (lizard)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs sauriens du genre Tupinambis, de la famille des Teiidae, endémique de…”.
What does tégu mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetegu (lizard)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs sauriens du genre Tupinambis, de la famille des Teiidae, endémique de l’Amérique du Sud.
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 tégu
- tégus plural
- téju alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tégu?
- /te.ɡy/
- \te.ɡy\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tégu in French?
tégu appears about once in every 81 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).