contractile
French, adjective/kɔ̃.tʁak.til/
contractile is spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-C-T-I-L-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 127,906th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contractile is a French adjective meaning “contractile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est susceptible de contraction”.
What does contractile mean in English?
adjective
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contractile
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est susceptible de contraction. 2. Se dit d'un espace qui se déforme continument en un point. Formellement, un espace topologique est contractile s'il existe une application continue H de X×[0;1] dans X, appelée homotopie, et un point x tels que H(x,t)=x pour tout t, H(y,0)=y et H(y,1)=x pour tout y dans X.
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 contractile
- contractiles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce contractile?
- /kɔ̃.tʁak.til/
- \kɔ̃.tʁak.til\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is contractile in French?
contractile appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).