hellébore
French, noun/e.le.bɔʁ/
hellébore is spelled H-E-L-L-É-B-O-R-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 152,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hellébore is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative form of ellébore” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom usuel des plantes du genre Helleborus de la famille des des Ranunculaceae (Renonculacées), dont certaines…”.
What does hellébore mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of ellébore
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom usuel des plantes du genre Helleborus de la famille des des Ranunculaceae (Renonculacées), dont certaines espèces étaient employées autrefois en médecine comme purgatif. 2. Hellébore d'hiver : Nom usuel de Eranthis hyemalis, plante tubéreuse, herbacée, de la famille des Ranunculaceae (Renonculacées) ; on la nomme aussi éranthe d'hiver ou hellébore d'hiver. 3. Hellébore blanc : Nom usuel de Veratrum album, plante de la famille des Melanthiaceae nommée aussi faux hellébore.
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 hellébore
- hellébores plural
- ellébore
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hellébore?
- /e.le.bɔʁ/
- \e.le.bɔʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hellébore
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hellébore in French?
hellébore appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).