parabène
French, noun\pa.ʁa.bɛn\
parabène is spelled P-A-R-A-B-È-N-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written French, the 270,259th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Parabène is a French masculine noun meaning “paraben” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Parahydroxybenzoate d’alkyle, c’est-à-dire un ester de l’acide parahydroxybenzoïque avec un alcool, utilisé…”.
What does parabène mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineparaben
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Parahydroxybenzoate d’alkyle, c’est-à-dire un ester de l’acide parahydroxybenzoïque avec un alcool, utilisé comme conservateur.
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 parabène
- parabènes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce parabène?
- \pa.ʁa.bɛn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is parabène in French?
parabène appears about once in every 74 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).