tégénaire
French, noun/te.ʒe.nɛʁ/
tégénaire is spelled T-É-G-É-N-A-I-R-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 81 million words in written French, the 282,260th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tégénaire is a French feminine noun meaning “one of multiple species of funnel weaver spider, either currently or formerly in the genus Tegenaria” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre d’araignée de la famille des Agelenidae et comprenant de nombreuses espèces”.
What does tégénaire mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineone of multiple species of funnel weaver spider, either currently or formerly in the genus Tegenaria
tégénaire des murs
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre d’araignée de la famille des Agelenidae et comprenant de nombreuses espèces.
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 tégénaire
- tégénaires plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tégénaire?
- /te.ʒe.nɛʁ/
- \te.ʒe.nɛʁ\
- [te.ʒe.nɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tégénaire in French?
tégénaire appears about once in every 81 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).