nébuleux
French, adjective/ne.by.lø/
nébuleux is spelled N-É-B-U-L-E-U-X (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 46,652nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nébuleux is a French adjective meaning “nebulous (all meanings)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est obscurci par les nuages”.
What does nébuleux mean in English?
adjective
- 1
nebulous (all meanings)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est obscurci par les nuages. 2. Qui s’obscurcit. 3. Qui est menacé de troubles, d’événements tristes, funestes. 4. Où se peint le souci, l’inquiétude.
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 nébuleux
- nébuleuse feminine
- nébuleuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nébuleux?
- /ne.by.lø/
- \ne.by.lø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to nébuleux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nébuleux in French?
nébuleux 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).