bétyle
French, noun/be.til/
bétyle is spelled B-É-T-Y-L-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written French, the 250,316th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bétyle is a French masculine noun meaning “baetyl (sacred stone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce de pierre en forme de cône à laquelle les peuples de Mésopotamie antique attribuaient des vertus…”.
What does bétyle mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebaetyl (sacred stone)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espèce de pierre en forme de cône à laquelle les peuples de Mésopotamie antique attribuaient des vertus merveilleuses. 2. Pierre sacrée entrant dans certains cultes animistes. 3. Nom donné à la pierre que Cronos avala à la place de son fils Zeus.
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 bétyle
- bétyles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bétyle?
- /be.til/
- \be.til\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bétyle in French?
bétyle appears about once in every 63 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).