parallélépipède
French, noun/pa.ʁa.le.le.pi.pɛd/
parallélépipède is a French masculine noun meaning “parallelepiped” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Forme tridimensionnelle à six faces (hexaèdre) qui sont toutes des parallélogrammes”.
What does parallélépipède mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineparallelepiped
un parallélépipède rectangle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Forme tridimensionnelle à six faces (hexaèdre) qui sont toutes des parallélogrammes. 2. Volume ou objet qui a les caractéristiques géométriques du parallélépipède.
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 parallélépipède
- parallélépipèdes plural
- parallélipipède alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce parallélépipède?
- /pa.ʁa.le.le.pi.pɛd/
- \pa.ʁa.le.le.pi.pɛd\
- [pa.ʁa.le.le.pi.pɛd]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to parallélépipède
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is parallélépipède in French?
parallélépipède appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).