mécanisme
French, noun/me.ka.nism/
mécanisme is spelled M-É-C-A-N-I-S-M-E (9 letters) and appears 16 times per million words in written French, the 4,658th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mécanisme is a French masculine noun meaning “mechanism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Structure d’un organisme naturel ou artificiel en tant que combinaison animée de ses parties”.
What does mécanisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemechanism
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Structure d’un organisme naturel ou artificiel en tant que combinaison animée de ses parties. 2. Construction de combinaisons. 3. Moteur, partie mobile et active d'un ensemble, pièces qui assurent le fonctionnement d’une machine. 4. Structure des éléments de la parole, arrangement des mots et des phrases.
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 mécanisme
- mécanismes plural
- méchanisme
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mécanisme?
- /me.ka.nism/
- /me.ka.nizm/
- \me.ka.nism\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mécanisme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mécanisme in French?
mécanisme appears 16 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).