photogénie
French, noun\fɔ.tɔ.ʒe.ni\
photogénie is spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-É-N-I-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 164,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Photogénie is a French feminine noun meaning “photogeny” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Production de lumière”.
What does photogénie mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininephotogeny
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Production de lumière. 2. Qualité d’une personne ou d'un objet révélée et amplifiée par le cinéma ou la photographie. 3. Beauté dont la reproduction photographique produit un certain effet esthétique.
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 photogénie
- photogénies plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce photogénie?
- \fɔ.tɔ.ʒe.ni\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is photogénie in French?
photogénie appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).