énucléer
French, verb/e.ny.kle.e/
énucléer is spelled É-N-U-C-L-É-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written French, the 216,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Énucléer is a French verb meaning “to enucleate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Extraire une tumeur ou un organe rond (rappelant un noyau), d’un organe”.
What does énucléer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to enucleate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Extraire une tumeur ou un organe rond (rappelant un noyau), d’un organe. 2. (spécialement en ophtalmologie) Procéder à une ablation du globe oculaire, à une extraction de l'œil. 3. Enlever le noyau ou les pépins (d’un fruit). 4. Enlever le noyau d’une cellule.
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 énucléer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- énucléant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- énucléé participle past
- énuclée first-person indicative present
- énuclées indicative present second-person
- énucléons first-person indicative plural
- énucléez indicative plural present
- énucléent indicative plural present
- énucléais first-person imperfect indicative
- énucléait imperfect indicative singular
- énucléions first-person imperfect indicative
- énucléiez imperfect indicative plural
- énucléaient imperfect indicative plural
- énucléai first-person historic indicative
- énucléas historic indicative past
- énucléa historic indicative past
- énucléâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce énucléer?
- /e.ny.kle.e/
- \e.ny.kle.e\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is énucléer in French?
énucléer appears about once in every 47 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).