napalm
French, noun\na.palm\
napalm is spelled N-A-P-A-L-M (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 38,202nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Napalm is a French masculine noun meaning “napalm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Substance à base d’essence gélifiée, habituellement utilisée dans les bombes incendiaires durant les guerres”.
What does napalm mean in English?
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Substance à base d’essence gélifiée, habituellement utilisée dans les bombes incendiaires durant les guerres.
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.
How do you pronounce napalm?
- \na.palm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to napalm
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is napalm in French?
napalm appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).