phalène
French, noun/fa.lɛn/
phalène is spelled P-H-A-L-È-N-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 117,104th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Phalène is a French feminine noun meaning “moth (especially a geometrid moth)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Grand lépidoptère, papillon de nuit de la famille des géométridés (Geometridae) aux antennes pectinées, dont…”.
What does phalène mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinemoth (especially a geometrid moth)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Grand lépidoptère, papillon de nuit de la famille des géométridés (Geometridae) aux antennes pectinées, dont les ailes un peu larges sont décorées et dont la chenille est très nuisible.
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 phalène
- phalènes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce phalène?
- /fa.lɛn/
- \fa.lɛn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to phalène
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is phalène in French?
phalène appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).