scille
French, noun/sil/
scille is spelled S-C-I-L-L-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 129,327th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scille is a French feminine noun meaning “squill, any plant of the genus Scilla or species Drimia maritima” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante bulbeuse du genre Drimia dont l’espèce la plus connue, la scille maritime, a un bulbe épais et était…”.
What does scille mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesquill, any plant of the genus Scilla or species Drimia maritima
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plante bulbeuse du genre Drimia dont l’espèce la plus connue, la scille maritime, a un bulbe épais et était employé comme diurétique et tonicardiaque. 2. Nom donné à de nombreuses plantes autres que celles du genre Drimia.
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 scille
- scilles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce scille?
- /sil/
- /skil/
- \sil\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to scille
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is scille in French?
scille appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).