Meanings
cayenne1
plural cayennes
- abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of cayenne pepper.
What's the difference between a cayenne and a jalapeno?
1 more example
His barbecue sauce could use a hint of cayenne to heat it up a bit.
- countablefigurativelyuncountableSpice or verve.
We speak ill of our neighbours, not from ill-nature, but idleness; satire is only the cayenne of conversation:...
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 316 - countableuncountableA strong red-orange colour, like the cayenne pepper.
Cayenne2
- The capital city of French Guiana department, France.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounplant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
nounground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchcayenne“naval barracks, shore kitchen”
- FrenchCayenne
- EnglishCayenne
From French Cayenne, a form of Guyana. But said by the French to be from French cayenne (“naval barracks, shore kitchen”).
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic كَايِين
- كَايِين (kayīn)capital city of French Guiana
Catalan Caiena
- Caienacapital city of French Guiana
Chinese Mandarin 卡宴, 開雲 /开云
- 卡宴 (Kǎyàn)capital city of French Guiana
- 開雲 /开云 (Kāiyún)capital city of French Guiana
Czech Cayenne
- Cayennecapital city of French Guiana
Dutch Cayenne
- Cayennecapital city of French Guiana
Esperanto Kajeno
- Kajenocapital city of French Guiana
French Cayenne
- Cayennecapital city of French Guiana
German Cayenne
- Cayennecapital city of French Guiana
Italian Caienna
- Caiennacapital city of French Guiana
Japanese カイエンヌ
- カイエンヌ (Kaiennu)capital city of French Guiana
Korean 카옌
- 카옌 (Kayen)capital city of French Guiana
Latin Caienna
- Caiennacapital city of French Guiana
Polish Kajenna
- Kajennacapital city of French Guiana
Portuguese Caiena
- Caienacapital city of French Guiana
Russian Кайе́нна
- Кайе́нна (Kajjénna)capital city of French Guiana
Spanish Cayena
- Cayenacapital city of French Guiana
Vietnamese Cay-en
- Cay-encapital city of French Guiana
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with cayenne
All rhymes →Cite this entry
cayenne. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cayenne
“cayenne.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cayenne. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cayenne,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cayenne.
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