népenthès
French, noun/ne.pɛ̃.tɛs/
népenthès is spelled N-É-P-E-N-T-H-È-S (9 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Népenthès is a French masculine noun meaning “nepenthes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom, dans l’Odyssée, d’une drogue qui, mêlée au vin, chassait la tristesse et la mélancolie”.
What does népenthès mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenepenthes
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom, dans l’Odyssée, d’une drogue qui, mêlée au vin, chassait la tristesse et la mélancolie. 2. Variante de népenthe.
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 népenthès?
- /ne.pɛ̃.tɛs/
- \ne.pɛ̃.tɛs\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is népenthès in French?
népenthès appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).