progestérone
French, noun/pʁɔ.ʒɛs.te.ʁɔn/
progestérone is spelled P-R-O-G-E-S-T-É-R-O-N-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 63,613th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Progestérone is a French feminine noun meaning “progesterone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Hormone stéroïde dérivée du cholestérol, principalement sécrétée par le corps jaune des ovaires et le…”.
What does progestérone mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineprogesterone
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Hormone stéroïde dérivée du cholestérol, principalement sécrétée par le corps jaune des ovaires et le placenta et impliquée dans le cycle œstral ou menstruel féminin, la gestation et l’embryogenèse des humains et d’autres espèces.
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 progestérone
- progestérones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce progestérone?
- /pʁɔ.ʒɛs.te.ʁɔn/
- \pʁɔ.ʒɛs.te.ʁɔn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to progestérone
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is progestérone in French?
progestérone appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).