apothème
French, noun/a.pɔ.tɛm/
apothème is spelled A-P-O-T-H-È-M-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written French, the 279,127th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apothème is a French masculine noun meaning “apothem” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Perpendiculaire menée du centre sur le côté d’un polygone régulier”.
What does apothème mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineapothem
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Perpendiculaire menée du centre sur le côté d’un polygone régulier.
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 apothème
- apothèmes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apothème?
- /a.pɔ.tɛm/
- \a.po.tɛm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is apothème in French?
apothème appears about once in every 79 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).