plombagine
French, noun\plɔ̃.ba.ʒin\
plombagine is spelled P-L-O-M-B-A-G-I-N-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 93 million words in written French, the 301,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plombagine is a French masculine noun meaning “graphite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Graphite”.
What does plombagine mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegraphite
−La mine de crayons, de quoi est-elle faite? −Avec de la plombagine, une pierre tendre qu'on scie en baguettes et qu'on enferme dans deux moitiés de cylindre de bois. (Colette, Cl. école, 1900)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Graphite.
adjective: 1. Dont l'aspect évoque la plombagine.
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 plombagine
- plombagines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce plombagine?
- \plɔ̃.ba.ʒin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to plombagine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is plombagine in French?
plombagine appears about once in every 93 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).