nucléon
French, noun\ny.kle.ɔ̃\
nucléon is spelled N-U-C-L-É-O-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 152,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nucléon is a French masculine noun meaning “nucleon (a proton or a neutron)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Particule qui est un composant du noyau atomique”.
What does nucléon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenucleon (a proton or a neutron)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Particule qui est un composant du noyau atomique. 2. Petit morceau de nacre que l’on insère dans une huître pour provoquer la formation d’une perle.
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 nucléon
- nucléons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nucléon?
- \ny.kle.ɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to nucléon
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nucléon in French?
nucléon appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).