pecten
French, noun\pɛk.tɛn\
pecten is a French masculine noun meaning “pecten (scallop)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mollusque bivalve comestible, aussi appelé peigne et dont le genre le plus connu est la coquille…”.
What does pecten mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepecten (scallop)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mollusque bivalve comestible, aussi appelé peigne et dont le genre le plus connu est la coquille Saint-Jacques.
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 pecten
- pectens plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pecten?
- \pɛk.tɛn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pecten in French?
pecten 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).