brontosaure
French, noun/bʁɔ̃.tɔ.zɔʁ/
brontosaure is spelled B-R-O-N-T-O-S-A-U-R-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 173,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Brontosaure is a French masculine noun meaning “brontosaur” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Le brontosaure est un genre de dinosaure sauropode herbivore de la famille des diplodocidés, découvert en…”.
What does brontosaure mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebrontosaur
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Le brontosaure est un genre de dinosaure sauropode herbivore de la famille des diplodocidés, découvert en 1879 par Othniel Charles Marsh. Il a longtemps été confondu avec l'apatosaure auquel il ressemble.
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 brontosaure
- brontosaures plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce brontosaure?
- /bʁɔ̃.tɔ.zɔʁ/
- \bʁɔ̃.tɔ.zɔʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to brontosaure
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is brontosaure in French?
brontosaure appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).