cautère
French, noun/ko.tɛʁ/
cautère is spelled C-A-U-T-È-R-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cautère is a French masculine noun meaning “cautery (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Instrument qui sert à brûler les tissus”.
What does cautère mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecautery (all senses)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Instrument qui sert à brûler les tissus. 2. Ulcération artificielle que l’on provoque à l’aide d’un caustique pour entretenir la suppuration.
noun: 1. Variante de cautère.
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 cautère
- cautères plural
- cauteres plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cautère?
- /ko.tɛʁ/
- \ko.tɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cautère
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cautère in French?
cautère 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).