lactose
French, noun/lak.toz/
lactose is spelled L-A-C-T-O-S-E (7 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lactose is a French masculine noun meaning “lactose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Diholoside composé d’une molécule de β-D-galactose et d’une molécule de glucose (Glc) reliées entre elles par…”.
What does lactose mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelactose
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Diholoside composé d’une molécule de β-D-galactose et d’une molécule de glucose (Glc) reliées entre elles par une liaison osidique β(1→4); c'est un sucre contenu dans le lait.
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 lactose
- lactoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lactose?
- /lak.toz/
- \lak.toz\
- [lak.toz]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lactose
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lactose in French?
lactose appears 1.0 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).