scalpel
French, noun/skal.pɛl/
scalpel is spelled S-C-A-L-P-E-L (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,183rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scalpel is a French masculine noun meaning “scalpel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sorte de couteau pointu, à lame fixe, à un ou deux tranchants, dont on se sert pour disséquer”.
What does scalpel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescalpel
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sorte de couteau pointu, à lame fixe, à un ou deux tranchants, dont on se sert pour disséquer.
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 scalpel
- scalpels plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce scalpel?
- /skal.pɛl/
- \skal.pɛl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to scalpel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is scalpel in French?
scalpel appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).