écoumène
French, noun/e.ku.mɛn/
écoumène is spelled É-C-O-U-M-È-N-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 187,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écoumène is a French masculine noun meaning “ecumene” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Notion géographique pour désigner l’ensemble des terres anthropisées (habitées ou exploitées par l’humain)”.
What does écoumène mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineecumene
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Notion géographique pour désigner l’ensemble des terres anthropisées (habitées ou exploitées par l’humain).
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 écoumène
- écoumènes plural
- œcoumène alternative
- œkoumène alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce écoumène?
- /e.ku.mɛn/
- \e.ku.mɛn\
- [e.ku.mɛn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to écoumène
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is écoumène in French?
écoumène appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).