albédo
French, noun/al.be.do/
albédo is spelled A-L-B-É-D-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 112,013th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Albédo is a French masculine noun meaning “albedo (the fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Grandeur caractérisant la proportion d’énergie lumineuse réfléchie ou diffusée par un corps éclairé”.
What does albédo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealbedo (the fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Grandeur caractérisant la proportion d’énergie lumineuse réfléchie ou diffusée par un corps éclairé. 2. Mésocarpe de couleur blanche des agrumes. (Face interne de la peau des agrumes).
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 albédo
- albédos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce albédo?
- /al.be.do/
- \al.be.do\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to albédo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is albédo in French?
albédo appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).