méticilline
French, noun\me.ti.si.lin\
méticilline is spelled M-É-T-I-C-I-L-L-I-N-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written French, the 239,448th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Méticilline is a French feminine noun meaning “meticillin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Antibiotique bactéricide de la famille des pénicillines (pénicilline M) résistant à la pénicillinase et…”.
What does méticilline mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemeticillin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Antibiotique bactéricide de la famille des pénicillines (pénicilline M) résistant à la pénicillinase et essentiellement utilisée contre le staphylocoque doré non-résistant.
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 méticilline
- méticillines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce méticilline?
- \me.ti.si.lin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is méticilline in French?
méticilline appears about once in every 58 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).