anaphase
French, noun/a.na.faz/
anaphase is spelled A-N-A-P-H-A-S-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 168,321st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anaphase is a French feminine noun meaning “anaphase” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Troisième phase très rapide de la méiose et de la mitose, succédant à la prophase et à la métaphase, où les…”.
What does anaphase mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineanaphase
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Troisième phase très rapide de la méiose et de la mitose, succédant à la prophase et à la métaphase, où les chromatides sœurs (durant la mitose ou la deuxième division de méiose) ou les chromosomes homologues (durant la première division de méiose) se séparent et migrent vers les pôles opposés de la cellule.
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 anaphase
- anaphases plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce anaphase?
- /a.na.faz/
- \a.na.faz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to anaphase
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anaphase in French?
anaphase appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).