colibacille
French, noun\kɔ.li.ba.sil\
colibacille is spelled C-O-L-I-B-A-C-I-L-L-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 46 million words in written French, the 214,487th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colibacille is a French masculine noun meaning “colon bacillus (E. coli)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Entérobactérie gram négative, en batonnet, sans spores, commensale de la flore intestinale et indispensable…”.
What does colibacille mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecolon bacillus (E. coli)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Entérobactérie gram négative, en batonnet, sans spores, commensale de la flore intestinale et indispensable, mais qui peut provoquer certaines infections urinaires, génitales ou intestinales parfois avec toxicose et même une septicémie.
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 colibacille
- colibacilles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce colibacille?
- \kɔ.li.ba.sil\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to colibacille
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is colibacille in French?
colibacille appears about once in every 46 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).