ukulélé
French, noun/ju.ku.le.le/
ukulélé is spelled U-K-U-L-É-L-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 53,211th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ukulélé is a French masculine noun meaning “ukulele” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit instrument hawaïen à cordes pincées, d’une forme semblable à un cavaquinho ou à une très petite guitare”.
What does ukulélé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineukulele
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit instrument hawaïen à cordes pincées, d’une forme semblable à un cavaquinho ou à une très petite guitare.
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 ukulélé
- ukulélés plural
- ^((h aspiré))\u.ku.le.le\ singular plural
- ukulele
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ukulélé?
- /ju.ku.le.le/
- /u.ku.le.le/
- /y.ky.le.le/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ukulélé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ukulélé in French?
ukulélé 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).