insectes
French, noun/ɛ̃.sɛkt/
insectes is spelled I-N-S-E-C-T-E-S (8 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,331st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Insectes is a French masculine noun meaning “plural of insecte” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Classe d'animaux invertébrés de l’embranchement des arthropodes et du sous-embranchement des hexapodes”.
What does insectes mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplural of insecte
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Classe d'animaux invertébrés de l’embranchement des arthropodes et du sous-embranchement des hexapodes.
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.
How do you pronounce insectes?
- /ɛ̃.sɛkt/
- \ɛ̃.sɛkt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is insectes in French?
insectes appears 13 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).