ténébrion
French, noun\te.ne.bʁi.jɔ̃\
ténébrion is spelled T-É-N-É-B-R-I-O-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written French, the 285,390th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ténébrion is a French masculine noun meaning “Tenebrio” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ami des ténèbres intellectuelles”.
What does ténébrion mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineTenebrio
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ami des ténèbres intellectuelles. 2. Bizut, élève en cours de bizutage.
noun: 1. Tenebrio, genre de coléoptères, dont une espèce, le ténébrion meunier, à l’état de larve, vit dans la farine.
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 ténébrion
- ténébrions plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ténébrion?
- \te.ne.bʁi.jɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ténébrion in French?
ténébrion appears about once in every 83 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).