hétérocycle
French, noun/e.te.ʁɔ.sikl/
hétérocycle is spelled H-É-T-É-R-O-C-Y-C-L-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written French, the 242,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hétérocycle is a French masculine noun meaning “heterocycle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Composé organique comprenant une chaîne fermée d'atomes, dont au moins un n’est pas un atome de carbone”.
What does hétérocycle mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineheterocycle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Composé organique comprenant une chaîne fermée d'atomes, dont au moins un n’est pas un atome de carbone.
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 hétérocycle
- hétérocycles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hétérocycle?
- /e.te.ʁɔ.sikl/
- \e.te.ʁo.sikl\
- [e.te.ʁo.sikl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is hétérocycle in French?
hétérocycle appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).