ménisque
French, noun\me.nisk\
ménisque is spelled M-É-N-I-S-Q-U-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 56,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ménisque is a French masculine noun meaning “meniscus (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lame fibro-cartilagineuse permettant à deux os de forme différente de s’ajuster plus étroitement l’un à…”.
What does ménisque mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemeniscus (all senses)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lame fibro-cartilagineuse permettant à deux os de forme différente de s’ajuster plus étroitement l’un à l’autre en assurant la concordance de leurs surfaces articulaires (genou, maxillaire). 2. Le ménisque du genou. 3. Verre, lentille convexe d’un côté et concave de l’autre. 4. Surface terminale d’un liquide dans un récipient étroit, concave ou convexe suivant la nature de ce liquide.
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 ménisque
- ménisques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ménisque?
- \me.nisk\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ménisque
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ménisque in French?
ménisque appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).