hétéro
French, noun/e.te.ʁo/
hétéro is spelled H-É-T-É-R-O (6 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written French, the 12,122nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hétéro is a French feminine noun meaning “a straight (heterosexual) person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Hétérosexuel”.
What does hétéro mean in English?
adjective
- 1
colloquialstraight (heterosexual)
noun
- 1
colloquialfemininemasculinea straight (heterosexual) person
Est-ce que Damien est un hétéro ?
prefix
- 1
hetero-
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Hétérosexuel.
noun: 1. Hétérosexuel.
prefix: 1. Indique l’absence d’unicité. 2. Indique la notion de dualité. L’autre. 3. Indique la différence, le contraire, l’opposé. 4. Relatif à l’hétérosexualité.
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 hétéro
- hétéros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hétéro?
- /e.te.ʁo/
- \e.te.ʁo\
- ^((h muet))\e.te.ʁo\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hétéro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hétéro in French?
hétéro appears 4.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).