ductile
French, adjective/dyk.til/
ductile is spelled D-U-C-T-I-L-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 94,626th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ductile is a French adjective meaning “ductile (capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui peut s’étirer sans se rompre”.
What does ductile mean in English?
adjective
- 1
ductile (capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui peut s’étirer sans se rompre.
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 ductile
- ductiles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ductile?
- /dyk.til/
- \dyk.til\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ductile
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ductile in French?
ductile appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).