ligand
French, noun\li.ɡɑ̃\
ligand is spelled L-I-G-A-N-D (6 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ligand is a French masculine noun meaning “ligand” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Atome ou groupe d’atomes lié à un atome central, généralement métallique, dans une entité moléculaire…”.
What does ligand mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineligand
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Atome ou groupe d’atomes lié à un atome central, généralement métallique, dans une entité moléculaire polyatomique. 2. Molécule qui se lie par complémentarité de structure à un site spécifique d’une protéine.
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 ligand
- ligands plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ligand?
- \li.ɡɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ligand
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ligand in French?
ligand 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).