odonate
French, noun/ɔ.dɔ.nat/
odonate is spelled O-D-O-N-A-T-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written French, the 186,002nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Odonate is a French masculine noun meaning “odonate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Insecte de l’ordre des Odonata qui regroupe les libellules (Anisoptera) et les demoiselles (Zygoptera)”.
What does odonate mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineodonate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Insecte de l’ordre des Odonata qui regroupe les libellules (Anisoptera) et les demoiselles (Zygoptera).
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 odonate
- odonates plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce odonate?
- /ɔ.dɔ.nat/
- \ɔ.dɔ.nat\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is odonate in French?
odonate appears about once in every 34 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).