fourmilion
French, noun/fuʁ.mi.ljɔ̃/
fourmilion is spelled F-O-U-R-M-I-L-I-O-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written French, the 250,316th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fourmilion is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative spelling of fourmi-lion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Insecte névroptère dont l’aspect adulte rappelle les libellules et dont les larves de beaucoup d'espèces…”.
What does fourmilion mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative spelling of fourmi-lion
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Insecte névroptère dont l’aspect adulte rappelle les libellules et dont les larves de beaucoup d'espèces creusent un trou en forme d’entonnoir pour piéger des insectes (fourmis surtout).
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 fourmilion
- fourmilions plural
- fourmi-lion
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fourmilion?
- /fuʁ.mi.ljɔ̃/
- \fuʁ.mi.ljɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fourmilion
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fourmilion in French?
fourmilion appears about once in every 63 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).