fentanyl
French, noun
fentanyl is spelled F-E-N-T-A-N-Y-L (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 44,377th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fentanyl is a French masculine noun meaning “fentanyl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Fentanyl is a different word: “alternative letter-case form of fentanyl”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Composé hétérocyclique à plusieurs noyaux dérivé de la phénylpipéridine utilisé comme un anesthésique”.
What does fentanyl mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefentanyl
noun
- 1
masculinealternative letter-case form of fentanyl
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Composé hétérocyclique à plusieurs noyaux dérivé de la phénylpipéridine utilisé comme un anesthésique.
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 fentanyl
- Fentanyl alternative
- fentanyls plural
- fentanyle
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fentanyl
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fentanyl in French?
fentanyl appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).