cœlacanthe
French, noun/se.la.kɑ̃t/
cœlacanthe is spelled C-Œ-L-A-C-A-N-T-H-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cœlacanthe is a French masculine noun meaning “coelacanth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Poisson actinistien, apparu au Dévonien, connu en tant que fossile avant d’être découvert vivant par…”.
What does cœlacanthe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecoelacanth
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Poisson actinistien, apparu au Dévonien, connu en tant que fossile avant d’être découvert vivant par l’ornithologue sud-africaine Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer en 1938 (genre Latimeria pour les spécimens actuels).
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 cœlacanthe
- cœlacanthes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cœlacanthe?
- /se.la.kɑ̃t/
- \se.la.kɑ̃t\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cœlacanthe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cœlacanthe in French?
cœlacanthe appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).