tétragramme
French, noun\te.tʁa.ɡʁam\
tétragramme is a French masculine noun meaning “tetragram” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Séquence de quatre lettres ou groupe de quatre symboles formant une unité, un phonème ou un mot”.
What does tétragramme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetetragram
- 2
masculineTetragrammaton (The four Hebrew letters יהוה used as the ineffable name of God)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Séquence de quatre lettres ou groupe de quatre symboles formant une unité, un phonème ou un mot. 2. YHWH, mot désignant Dieu dans la tradition hébraïque puis chrétienne. 3. INRI, mot désignant Jésus dans la tradition chrétienne.
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 tétragramme
- tétragrammes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tétragramme?
- \te.tʁa.ɡʁam\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tétragramme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tétragramme in French?
tétragramme 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).