codon
French, noun/kɔ.dɔ̃/
codon is spelled C-O-D-O-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 130,697th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Codon is a French masculine noun meaning “codon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Triplet de nucléotides (adénine, cytosine, uracile ou guanine de l'acide ribonucléique messager) entrant dans…”.
What does codon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecodon
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Triplet de nucléotides (adénine, cytosine, uracile ou guanine de l'acide ribonucléique messager) entrant dans la composition d'un acide nucléique, et désigné par les initiales des trois bases correspondantes (bases puriques ou pyrimidiques).
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 codon
- codons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce codon?
- /kɔ.dɔ̃/
- \kɔ.dɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to codon
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is codon in French?
codon appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).