acétylène
French, noun/a.se.ti.lɛn/
acétylène is spelled A-C-É-T-Y-L-È-N-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 64,346th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acétylène is a French masculine noun meaning “acetylene” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Hydrocarbure gazeux à la température ordinaire de la classe des alcynes, de formule chimique C₂H₂ ou H−C≡C−H…”.
What does acétylène mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineacetylene
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Hydrocarbure gazeux à la température ordinaire de la classe des alcynes, de formule chimique C₂H₂ ou H−C≡C−H, résultant entre autres de la décomposition de l’eau par le carbure de calcium.
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 acétylène
- acétylènes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acétylène?
- /a.se.ti.lɛn/
- \a.se.ti.lɛn\
- [l‿a.se.ti.lɛn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acétylène
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acétylène in French?
acétylène appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).