tétanie
French, noun/te.ta.ni/
tétanie is spelled T-É-T-A-N-I-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 113,280th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tétanie is a French feminine noun meaning “tetany” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Syndrome d’excitabilité neuromusculaire caractérisé par des spasmes douloureux”.
What does tétanie mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetetany
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Syndrome d’excitabilité neuromusculaire caractérisé par des spasmes douloureux.
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 tétanie
- tétanies plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tétanie?
- /te.ta.ni/
- \te.ta.ni\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tétanie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tétanie in French?
tétanie appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).