typha
French, noun/ti.fa/
typha is spelled T-Y-P-H-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 141,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Typha is a French masculine noun meaning “cattail, reedmace” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Massette d’eau ^([1]), plante monocotylédone poussant dans les milieux humides”.
What does typha mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecattail, reedmace
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Massette d’eau ^([1]), plante monocotylédone poussant dans les milieux humides.
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 typha
- typhas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce typha?
- /ti.fa/
- \ti.fa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is typha in French?
typha appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).