scutellum
French, noun\sky.tɛ.lɔm\
scutellum is spelled S-C-U-T-E-L-L-U-M (9 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 175,987th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scutellum is a French masculine noun meaning “scutellum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie dorsale de la carapace située à la jonction des élytres chez les coléoptères”.
What does scutellum mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescutellum
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie dorsale de la carapace située à la jonction des élytres chez les coléoptères. 2. Cotylédon élargi et en position latérale des graminées.
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 scutellum
- scutellums plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce scutellum?
- \sky.tɛ.lɔm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to scutellum
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is scutellum in French?
scutellum appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).