tératologie
French, noun/te.ʁa.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi/
tératologie is spelled T-É-R-A-T-O-L-O-G-I-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 141,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tératologie is a French masculine noun meaning “teratology” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie des sciences naturelles qui traite des malformations congénitales et des monstruosités organiques”.
What does tératologie mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineteratology
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie des sciences naturelles qui traite des malformations congénitales et des monstruosités organiques.
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 tératologie
- tératologies plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tératologie?
- /te.ʁa.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi/
- \te.ʁa.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
- [te.ʁa.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tératologie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tératologie in French?
tératologie appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).