bacille
French, noun/ba.sil/
bacille is spelled B-A-C-I-L-L-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,146th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bacille is a French masculine noun meaning “bacillus (rod-shaped bacterium)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Microbe en forme de bâtonnet”.
What does bacille mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebacillus (rod-shaped bacterium)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Microbe en forme de bâtonnet. 2. Genre de phasme du genre Bacillidae.
noun: 1. Variante de bacile.
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 bacille
- bacilles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bacille?
- /ba.sil/
- \ba.sil\
- [basil]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bacille
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bacille in French?
bacille appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).