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sébacé

French, adjective/se.ba.se/

sébacé is spelled S-É-B-A-C-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sébacé is a French adjective meaning “sebaceous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif au sébum, matière onctueuse, sécrétée par certaines glandes et dont la consistance est à peu près…”.

What does sébacé mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    sebaceous

    glandes sébacées

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Relatif au sébum, matière onctueuse, sécrétée par certaines glandes et dont la consistance est à peu près semblable à celle du suif. 2. Qui sécrète le sébum.

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 sébacé

  • sébacée feminine
  • sébacés masculine plural
  • sébacées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce sébacé?

  • /se.ba.se/
  • \se.ba.se\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is sébacé in French?

sébacé appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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