ellébore
French, noun/e.le.bɔʁ/
ellébore is spelled E-L-L-É-B-O-R-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 127,906th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ellébore is a French feminine noun meaning “hellebore (Helleborus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom usuel des plantes du genre Helleborus de la famille des Renonculacées, dont certaines espèces étaient…”.
What does ellébore mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinehellebore (Helleborus)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom usuel des plantes du genre Helleborus de la famille des Renonculacées, dont certaines espèces étaient employées autrefois en médecine comme purgatif. 2. Désigne plus particulièrement l'ellébore fétide ou hellébore fétide, Helleborus foetidus ^([1]).
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 ellébore
- ellébores plural
- hellébore alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ellébore?
- /e.le.bɔʁ/
- \e.le.bɔʁ\
- \ɛ.le.bɔʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ellébore
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ellébore in French?
ellébore 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).