glycérine
French, noun/ɡli.se.ʁin/
glycérine is spelled G-L-Y-C-É-R-I-N-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 46,078th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glycérine is a French feminine noun meaning “glycerine (the compound glycerol)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Liquide incolore, transparent, facilement soluble dans l’alcool, d’une saveur sucrée et d’une consistance…”.
What does glycérine mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineglycerine (the compound glycerol)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Liquide incolore, transparent, facilement soluble dans l’alcool, d’une saveur sucrée et d’une consistance sirupeuse, qui est le produit de la saponification des graisses.
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 glycérine
- glycérines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce glycérine?
- /ɡli.se.ʁin/
- \ɡli.se.ʁin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to glycérine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glycérine in French?
glycérine 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).