spirochète
French, noun\spi.ʁɔ.kɛt\
spirochète is spelled S-P-I-R-O-C-H-È-T-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written French, the 242,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spirochète is a French feminine noun meaning “spirochete” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bactérie du genre Spirochaeta à gram négatif, longue et enroulée en hélice”.
What does spirochète mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininespirochete
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bactérie du genre Spirochaeta à gram négatif, longue et enroulée en hélice.
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 spirochète
- spirochètes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce spirochète?
- \spi.ʁɔ.kɛt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to spirochète
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is spirochète in French?
spirochète appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).