mésencéphale
French, noun/me.zɑ̃.se.fal/
mésencéphale is spelled M-É-S-E-N-C-É-P-H-A-L-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 144,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mésencéphale is a French masculine noun meaning “midbrain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie du tronc cérébral reliée au cerveau, formé des deux pédoncules cérébraux, du tegmentum et du tectum”.
What does mésencéphale mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemidbrain
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie du tronc cérébral reliée au cerveau, formé des deux pédoncules cérébraux, du tegmentum et du tectum.
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 mésencéphale
- mésencéphales plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mésencéphale?
- /me.zɑ̃.se.fal/
- \me.zɑ̃.se.fal\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mésencéphale
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mésencéphale in French?
mésencéphale appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).