nécrose
French, noun
nécrose is spelled N-É-C-R-O-S-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,802nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nécrose is a French feminine noun meaning “necrosis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, nécrosé is a different word: “necrotic”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mortification ; altération, dégénérescence de cellules, de tissus qui aboutit à leur mort”.
What does nécrose mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininenecrosis
adjective
- 1
necrotic
verb
- 1
past participle of nécroser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mortification ; altération, dégénérescence de cellules, de tissus qui aboutit à leur mort.
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 nécrose
- nécroses plural
- nécrosée feminine
- nécrosés masculine plural
- nécrosées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to nécrose
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nécrose in French?
nécrose 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).