roténone
French, noun\ʁɔ.te.nɔn\
roténone is spelled R-O-T-É-N-O-N-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 190,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Roténone is a French masculine noun meaning “rotenone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Composé organique qui fait partie de la classe des isoflavones extraite de plantes telles que le Derris, le…”.
What does roténone mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerotenone
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Composé organique qui fait partie de la classe des isoflavones extraite de plantes telles que le Derris, le Lonchocarpus ou Cubé et le Tephrosia, à usage d'insecticide sur de nombreux insectes (doryphore, pucerons, etc.).
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.
How do you pronounce roténone?
- \ʁɔ.te.nɔn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is roténone in French?
roténone appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).