chiralité
French, noun/ki.ʁa.li.te/
chiralité is spelled C-H-I-R-A-L-I-T-É (9 letters) and appears about once in every 37 million words in written French, the 194,108th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chiralité is a French feminine noun meaning “chirality (a property of asymmetry important in several branches of science)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Propriété géométrique d’un objet non superposable à son image dans un miroir, en particulier d’une entité…”.
What does chiralité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininechirality (a property of asymmetry important in several branches of science)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Propriété géométrique d’un objet non superposable à son image dans un miroir, en particulier d’une entité moléculaire, du spin d’une particule, d’un polyèdre, etc.
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 chiralité
- chiralités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chiralité?
- /ki.ʁa.li.te/
- \ki.ʁa.li.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chiralité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chiralité in French?
chiralité appears about once in every 37 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).