tursiops
French, noun/tyʁ.sjo/
tursiops is spelled T-U-R-S-I-O-P-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written French, the 200,689th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tursiops is a French masculine noun meaning “bottlenose dolphin; dolphin of the genus Tursiops” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce de dauphin du genre Tursiops, dauphins gris aux mâchoires allongées en rostre”.
What does tursiops mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebottlenose dolphin; dolphin of the genus Tursiops
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espèce de dauphin du genre Tursiops, dauphins gris aux mâchoires allongées en rostre. 2. Synonyme de grand dauphin.
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 tursiops
- tursion
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tursiops?
- /tyʁ.sjo/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tursiops in French?
tursiops appears about once in every 40 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).