scissiparité
French, noun\si.si.pa.ʁi.te\
scissiparité is spelled S-C-I-S-S-I-P-A-R-I-T-É (12 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written French, the 200,689th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scissiparité is a French feminine noun meaning “scissiparity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Multiplication par division de certains êtres”.
What does scissiparité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininescissiparity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Multiplication par division de certains êtres. 2. Phénomène qui conduit à envisager une multiplication des connaissances ou d’un domaine de connaissance.
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 scissiparité
- scissiparités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce scissiparité?
- \si.si.pa.ʁi.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to scissiparité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is scissiparité in French?
scissiparité appears about once in every 40 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).