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épilobe

French, noun\e.pi.lɔb\

épilobe is spelled É-P-I-L-O-B-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 69 million words in written French, the 261,491st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Épilobe is a French masculine noun meaning “willowherb (of genus Epilobium)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de plantes herbacées aux fleurs à quatre pétales, de la famille des onagracées ou des œnothéracées. →…”.

What does épilobe mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinewillowherb (of genus Epilobium)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Genre de plantes herbacées aux fleurs à quatre pétales, de la famille des onagracées ou des œnothéracées. → voir Epilobium 2. Épilobe en épi.

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 épilobe

  • épilobes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce épilobe?

  • \e.pi.lɔb\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is épilobe in French?

épilobe appears about once in every 69 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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