microbe
French, noun/mi.kʁɔb/
microbe is spelled M-I-C-R-O-B-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Microbe is a French masculine noun meaning “microbe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Organisme vivant qui ne peut être vu qu’en utilisant un microscope”.
What does microbe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemicrobe
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Organisme vivant qui ne peut être vu qu’en utilisant un microscope. 2. Ce qui est en soi de plus ancré. 3. Avorton, nain, personne de petite taille. 4. Tout agent pathogène, vecteur de transmission invisible.
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 microbe
- microbes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce microbe?
- /mi.kʁɔb/
- \mi.kʁɔb\
- [mi.kʁɔb]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to microbe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is microbe in French?
microbe appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).