tégument
French, noun/te.ɡy.mɑ̃/
tégument is spelled T-É-G-U-M-E-N-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 91,528th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tégument is a French masculine noun meaning “integument, tegument” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tissu organique qui recouvre le corps des animaux”.
What does tégument mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineintegument, tegument
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tissu organique qui recouvre le corps des animaux. 2. Enveloppe de l’ovule ou de la graine.
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 tégument
- téguments plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tégument?
- /te.ɡy.mɑ̃/
- \te.ɡy.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tégument
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tégument in French?
tégument appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).