spirale
French, noun
spirale is spelled S-P-I-R-A-L-E (7 letters) and appears 5.0 times per million words in written French, the 11,195th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spirale is a French feminine noun meaning “spiral” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of spiral. With an accent, spiralé is a different word: “past participle of spiraler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Courbe plane qui s’écarte toujours de plus en plus du point autour duquel elle fait une infinité de…”.
What does spirale mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininespiral
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of spiral
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of spiraler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Courbe plane qui s’écarte toujours de plus en plus du point autour duquel elle fait une infinité de révolutions. 2. Objet qui a une forme approchante de la spirale ou de la spire ; suite de circonvolutions. 3. Développement incontrôlé d’un phénomène.
adjective: 1. Qui est tordu ou disposé en spirale, par exemple : les vrilles de beaucoup de plantes, les filets des trachées.
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 spirale
- spirales plural
- spiralée feminine
- spiralés masculine plural
- spiralées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to spirale
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is spirale in French?
spirale appears 5.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).