agrile
French, noun/a.ɡʁil/
agrile is spelled A-G-R-I-L-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 144,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Agrile is a French masculine noun meaning “jewel beetle, buprestid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de petits coléoptères de la famille des buprestes, à reflets métalliques, dont les larves xylophages se…”.
What does agrile mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejewel beetle, buprestid
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre de petits coléoptères de la famille des buprestes, à reflets métalliques, dont les larves xylophages se nourrissent aux dépens de nombreux arbres et arbustes (chêne, poirier, vigne, etc.), parfois de rhizomes d’autres plantes.
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 agrile
- agriles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce agrile?
- /a.ɡʁil/
- \a.ɡʁil\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is agrile in French?
agrile appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).