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ski

French, noun/ski/

ski is a French masculine noun meaning “ski” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Patin très long, légèrement recourbé en avant, qui sert à glisser sur la neige”.

What does ski mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineski

  2. 2

    masculineskiing (sport)

    faire du ski

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Patin très long, légèrement recourbé en avant, qui sert à glisser sur la neige. 2. Sport de glisse sur neige ou sur eau, pratiqué à l’aide de ces accessoires.

noun: 1. Pluriel de ski.

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 ski

  • skis plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce ski?

  • /ski/
  • \ski\
  • [ski]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to ski

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is ski in French?

ski appears 26 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).