perchloroéthylène
French, noun/pɛʁ.klɔ.ʁɔ.e.ti.lɛn/
perchloroéthylène is spelled P-E-R-C-H-L-O-R-O-É-T-H-Y-L-È-N-E (17 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Perchloroéthylène is a French masculine noun meaning “perchloroethylene” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Composé chimique de formule brute C₂Cl₄, solvant organique utilisé notamment pour le nettoyage à sec des…”.
What does perchloroéthylène mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineperchloroethylene
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Composé chimique de formule brute C₂Cl₄, solvant organique utilisé notamment pour le nettoyage à sec des tissus.
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 perchloroéthylène
- perchloroéthylènes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce perchloroéthylène?
- /pɛʁ.klɔ.ʁɔ.e.ti.lɛn/
- \pɛʁ.klɔ.ʁɔ.e.ty.lɛn\
- \pəʁ.klɔ.ʁɔ.e.ti.lɛn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is perchloroéthylène in French?
perchloroéthylène appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).