hormone
French, noun/ɔʁ.mɔn/
hormone is spelled H-O-R-M-O-N-E (7 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 21,266th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hormone is a French feminine noun meaning “hormone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Molécule messagère véhiculée par le sang ou la sève qui agit à distance de son site de production par…”.
What does hormone mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehormone
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Molécule messagère véhiculée par le sang ou la sève qui agit à distance de son site de production par fixation sur des récepteurs spécifiques. 2. Herbicide qui agit sur la plante à la manière de ces molécules.
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 hormone
- hormones plural
- ^((h muet))\ɔʁ.mɔn\ singular plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hormone?
- /ɔʁ.mɔn/
- ^((h muet))\ɔʁ.mɔn\
- [ɔʁ.mɔn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hormone
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hormone in French?
hormone appears 1.9 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).