archée
French, noun/aʁ.ʃe/
archée is spelled A-R-C-H-É-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 187,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Archée is a French feminine noun meaning “range of a bow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Portée d’un arc”.
What does archée mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininerange of a bow
noun
- 1
femininearchaean
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Portée d’un arc.
noun: 1. Principe de la vie, d’après les anciens physiologistes. Nom que Paracelse donne à l'esprit vital qui, selon lui, préside à la nutrition et à la conservation des êtres vivants. Jean-Baptiste Van Helmont appelle archée le principe actif dans les corps. Stahl a modifié à son tour la doctrine de Van Helmont, en attribuant à l'âme le rôle d’archée (voir animisme).
noun: 1. Microorganisme appartenant au troisième grand domaine du vivant outre les bactéries et eucaryotes (longueur cellule 5 μm).
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 archée
- archées plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce archée?
- /aʁ.ʃe/
- /aʁ.ke/
- \aʁ.ʃe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to archée
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is archée in French?
archée appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).