aperture
French, noun/a.pɛʁ.tyʁ/
aperture is spelled A-P-E-R-T-U-R-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 79,170th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aperture is a French feminine noun meaning “opening, openness, aperture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Zone de moindre résistance à la surface du grain de pollen par où germe le tube pollinique”.
What does aperture mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineopening, openness, aperture
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Zone de moindre résistance à la surface du grain de pollen par où germe le tube pollinique. 2. Écartement des organes au point d’articulation d’un phonème.
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 aperture
- apertures plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aperture?
- /a.pɛʁ.tyʁ/
- \a.pɛʁ.tyʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aperture in French?
aperture appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).