chiroptère
French, noun/ki.ʁɔp.tɛʁ/
chiroptère is spelled C-H-I-R-O-P-T-È-R-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chiroptère is a French masculine noun meaning “bat (animal of the order Chiroptera)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Synonyme savant de chauve-souris”.
What does chiroptère mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebat (animal of the order Chiroptera)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Synonyme savant de chauve-souris.
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 chiroptère
- chiroptères plural
- chéiroptère
- cheiroptère
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chiroptère?
- /ki.ʁɔp.tɛʁ/
- \ki.ʁɔp.tɛʁ\
- [ki.ʁɔp.tɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chiroptère in French?
chiroptère appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).