phosgène
French, noun\fɔs.ʒɛn\
phosgène is spelled P-H-O-S-G-È-N-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 150,781st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Phosgène is a French masculine noun meaning “phosgene” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Composé chimique gazeux au dessus de 8 °C, de formule brute CCl₂O, produit par la combinaison du chlore et du…”.
What does phosgène mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinephosgene
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Composé chimique gazeux au dessus de 8 °C, de formule brute CCl₂O, produit par la combinaison du chlore et du monoxyde de carbone, et qui a une action dangereuse sur les voies respiratoires.
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 phosgène
- phosgènes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce phosgène?
- \fɔs.ʒɛn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is phosgène in French?
phosgène 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).