périnée
French, noun/pe.ʁi.ne/
périnée is spelled P-É-R-I-N-É-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 44,377th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Périnée is a French masculine noun meaning “perineum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Région qui est entre l’anus et les parties sexuelles, partagée en deux parties égales par une ligne médiane…”.
What does périnée mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineperineum
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Région qui est entre l’anus et les parties sexuelles, partagée en deux parties égales par une ligne médiane dite le raphé.
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 périnée
- périnées plural
- perinæe alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce périnée?
- /pe.ʁi.ne/
- \pe.ʁi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to périnée
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is périnée in French?
périnée appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).