hile
French, noun/il/
hile is spelled H-I-L-E (4 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 103,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hile is a French masculine noun meaning “hilum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce de cicatrice que porte une graine et qui indique le point par lequel elle tenait à la plante qui l’a…”.
What does hile mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehilum
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espèce de cicatrice que porte une graine et qui indique le point par lequel elle tenait à la plante qui l’a produite. 2. Endroit à partir duquel les couches successives d'amidon se déposent de manière concentrique dans un amyloplaste. 3. Point d'attachement de la spore sur le stérigmate. 4. Point où un viscère reçoit ses vaisseaux.
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 hile
- hiles plural
- ^((h aspiré))\il\ singular plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hile?
- /il/
- ^((h aspiré))\il\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hile
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hile in French?
hile appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).