anthracène
French, noun/ɑ̃.tʁa.sɛn/
anthracène is spelled A-N-T-H-R-A-C-È-N-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written French, the 179,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anthracène is a French masculine noun meaning “anthracene” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Hydrocarbure polycyclique extrait des goudrons de houille, dont la formule brute est C₁₄H₁₀”.
What does anthracène mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineanthracene
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Hydrocarbure polycyclique extrait des goudrons de houille, dont la formule brute est C₁₄H₁₀.
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 anthracène
- anthracènes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce anthracène?
- /ɑ̃.tʁa.sɛn/
- \ɑ̃.tʁa.sɛn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to anthracène
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anthracène in French?
anthracène appears about once in every 32 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).