céphalé
French, adjective/se.fa.le/
céphalé is spelled C-É-P-H-A-L-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 141,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Céphalé is a French adjective meaning “cephalic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est muni d’une tête distincte et séparée”.
What does céphalé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cephalic
suffix
- 1
-cephalic
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. Suffixe employé pour former des adjectifs ou noms communs ayant un rapport avec la tête ou le cerveau.
adjective: 1. Qui est muni d’une tête distincte et séparée.
noun: 1. Insecte lépidoptère (papillon) de la famille des nymphalidés, dont les ailes sont de couleur brun orange et munies d’ocelles.
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 céphalé
- céphalée feminine
- céphalés masculine plural
- céphalées feminine plural
- céphales plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce céphalé?
- /se.fa.le/
- /se.fal/
- \se.fa.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is céphalé in French?
céphalé appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).