carotène
French, noun/ka.ʁɔ.tɛn/
carotène is spelled C-A-R-O-T-È-N-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,980th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carotène is a French masculine noun meaning “carotene” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pigment des plantes chlorophylliennes, il s'agit d'un hydrocarbure terpénique”.
What does carotène mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecarotene
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pigment des plantes chlorophylliennes, il s'agit d'un hydrocarbure terpénique.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de bêta-carotène.
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 carotène
- carotènes plural
- β-carotènes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce carotène?
- /ka.ʁɔ.tɛn/
- \ka.ʁɔ.tɛn\
- \be.ta.ka.ʁo.tɛn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to carotène
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is carotène in French?
carotène appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).