frelon
French, noun/fʁə.lɔ̃/
frelon is spelled F-R-E-L-O-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 39,210th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frelon is a French masculine noun meaning “hornet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sorte de grosse guêpe, de nom scientifique Vespa crabro”.
What does frelon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehornet
frelon européen
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sorte de grosse guêpe, de nom scientifique Vespa crabro. 2. Gens inutiles à la société. 3. Gens incapables et envieux qui décrient les ouvrages d’autrui et qui les pillent. 4. Frère, frérot (pour désigner une personne proche, sans nécessairement un lien familial).
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 frelon
- frelons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frelon?
- /fʁə.lɔ̃/
- \fʁə.lɔ̃\
- [fʁǝ.lɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to frelon
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is frelon in French?
frelon appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).