mésophile
French, adjective/me.zɔ.fil/
mésophile is spelled M-É-S-O-P-H-I-L-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written French, the 212,128th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mésophile is a French adjective meaning “mesophilic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualifie les êtres vivants qui croissent et prospèrent dans un milieu ou sous un climat qui n'est pas extrême”.
What does mésophile mean in English?
adjective
- 1
mesophilic
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qualifie les êtres vivants qui croissent et prospèrent dans un milieu ou sous un climat qui n'est pas extrême.
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 mésophile
- mésophiles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mésophile?
- /me.zɔ.fil/
- \me.zo.fil\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mésophile in French?
mésophile appears about once in every 45 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).