hyménée
French, noun/i.me.ne/
hyménée is spelled H-Y-M-É-N-É-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 132,154th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hyménée is a French masculine noun meaning “hymen (wedlock)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mariage, union conjugale”.
What does hyménée mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehymen (wedlock)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mariage, union conjugale.
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 hyménée
- hyménées plural
- ^((h muet))\i.me.ne\ singular plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hyménée?
- /i.me.ne/
- ^((h muet))\i.me.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is hyménée in French?
hyménée appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).