adénine
French, noun\a.de.nin\
adénine is spelled A-D-É-N-I-N-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 129,327th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adénine is a French feminine noun meaning “adenine (a base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Base azotée purique qu’on trouve dans l’ADN et l’ARN, constituée d'un squelette de purine avec un groupement…”.
What does adénine mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineadenine (a base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Base azotée purique qu’on trouve dans l’ADN et l’ARN, constituée d'un squelette de purine avec un groupement amine.
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 adénine
- adénines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adénine?
- \a.de.nin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adénine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adénine in French?
adénine appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).