sténo
French, noun/ste.no/
sténo is spelled S-T-É-N-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 102,288th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sténo is a French feminine noun meaning “shorthand, stenography” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sténographie”.
What does sténo mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineshorthand, stenography
noun
- 1
femininemasculineshorthand typist, stenographer
prefix
- 1
steno-
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sténographie. 2. Sténographe masculin et féminin identiques.
prefix: 1. Préfixe des mots en rapport avec l’étroitesse spatiale ou une durée limitée.
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 sténo
- sténos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sténo?
- /ste.no/
- \ste.no\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sténo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sténo in French?
sténo appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).