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techno

French, noun/tɛk.no/

techno is spelled T-E-C-H-N-O (6 letters) and appears 6.2 times per million words in written French, the 9,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Techno is a French masculine noun meaning “techno” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre musical populaire appartenant aux musiques électroniques, le plus souvent instrumental, à quatre temps…”.

What does techno mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetechno

prefix

as techno-
  1. 1

    techno-

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Genre musical populaire appartenant aux musiques électroniques, le plus souvent instrumental, à quatre temps et faisant appel à des outils numériques.

noun: 1. [En parlant notamment d’un membre du gouvernement] Technicien (par opposition à politique).

adjective: 1. Relatif ou propre à la musique techno.

adjective: 1. Technologique.

prefix: 1. En rapport avec la technologie.

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 techno

  • technos plural

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

How do you pronounce techno?

  • /tɛk.no/
  • \tɛk.no\
  • \tɛk.nɔ\

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

English words that translate to techno

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is techno in French?

techno appears 6.2 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).

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