bathyscaphe
French, noun/ba.tis.kaf/
bathyscaphe is spelled B-A-T-H-Y-S-C-A-P-H-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written French, the 136,634th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bathyscaphe is a French masculine noun meaning “bathyscaphe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sous-marin d’exploration abyssale”.
What does bathyscaphe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebathyscaphe
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sous-marin d’exploration abyssale.
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 bathyscaphe
- bathyscaphes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bathyscaphe?
- /ba.tis.kaf/
- \ba.tis.kaf\
- [batiskaf]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bathyscaphe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bathyscaphe in French?
bathyscaphe appears about once in every 18 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).