micelle
French, noun/mi.sɛl/
micelle is a French feminine noun meaning “micelle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Agrégat sphéroïdal de molécules insolubles faiblement liées maintenues dans le solvant grâce à des agents qui…”.
What does micelle mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemicelle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Agrégat sphéroïdal de molécules insolubles faiblement liées maintenues dans le solvant grâce à des agents qui les stabilisent, tels les détergents ou les macromolécules.
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 micelle
- micelles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce micelle?
- /mi.sɛl/
- \mi.sɛl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to micelle
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is micelle in French?
micelle appears about once in every 51 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).