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hémione

French, noun/e.mjɔn/

hémione is spelled H-É-M-I-O-N-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 71 million words in written French, the 264,399th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hémione is a French masculine noun meaning “hemione, onager” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Équidé, espèce d’âne sauvage en voie de disparition et vivant en Sibérie méridionale, ainsi que dans le…”.

What does hémione mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinehemione, onager

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Équidé, espèce d’âne sauvage en voie de disparition et vivant en Sibérie méridionale, ainsi que dans le Turkestan et la Mongolie.

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 hémione

  • hémiones plural
  • hémyone obsolete

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce hémione?

  • /e.mjɔn/
  • \e.mjɔn\
  • \e.mi.ɔn\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to hémione

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is hémione in French?

hémione appears about once in every 71 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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