ocelle
French, noun
ocelle is spelled O-C-E-L-L-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written French, the 136,634th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ocelle is a French masculine noun meaning “ocellus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, ocellé is a different word: “ocellated”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Œil simple photorécepteur des insectes placé sur le front ou sur le vertex au nombre de deux ou trois”.
What does ocelle mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineocellus
adjective
- 1
ocellated
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est parsemé de taches en forme d’yeux, comme la queue d’un paon.
noun: 1. Œil simple photorécepteur des insectes placé sur le front ou sur le vertex au nombre de deux ou trois. 2. Tache arrondie sur la livrée de certains animaux, servant de leurre ou de camouflage, par mimétisme. 3. Tache de couleur de forme arrondie.
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 ocelle
- ocelles plural
- ocellée feminine
- ocellés masculine plural
- ocellées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ocelle
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ocelle in French?
ocelle appears about once in every 18 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).