matou
French, noun/ma.tu/
matou is a French masculine noun meaning “tom (male cat)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chat mâle qui n’est pas châtré, éventuellement employé par l’homme pour la reproduction”.
What does matou mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetom (male cat)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Chat mâle qui n’est pas châtré, éventuellement employé par l’homme pour la reproduction.
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 matou
- matous plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce matou?
- /ma.tu/
- \ma.tu\
- [ma.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 matou
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is matou in French?
matou appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).