scorpène
French, noun\skɔʁ.pɛn\
scorpène is spelled S-C-O-R-P-È-N-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 161,134th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scorpène is a French feminine noun meaning “scorpionfish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de poissons dont la rascasse est le type”.
What does scorpène mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininescorpionfish
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre de poissons dont la rascasse est le type.
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 scorpène
- scorpènes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce scorpène?
- \skɔʁ.pɛn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is scorpène in French?
scorpène appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).