délétion
French, noun/de.le.sjɔ̃/
délétion is spelled D-É-L-É-T-I-O-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 159,320th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Délétion is a French feminine noun meaning “deletion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Perte d’une partie du matériel génétique pouvant aller d’un seul nucléotide à plusieurs gènes”.
What does délétion mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedeletion
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Perte d’une partie du matériel génétique pouvant aller d’un seul nucléotide à plusieurs gènes.
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 délétion
- délétions plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce délétion?
- /de.le.sjɔ̃/
- \de.le.sjɔ̃\
- [de.le.sjɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to délétion
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is délétion in French?
délétion appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).