thérémine
French, noun/te.ʁe.min/
thérémine is spelled T-H-É-R-É-M-I-N-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 170,198th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Thérémine is a French masculine noun meaning “theremin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “L’un des premiers instruments de musique électronique, inventé en U.R.S.S. vers 1919”.
What does thérémine mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetheremin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. L’un des premiers instruments de musique électronique, inventé en U.R.S.S. vers 1919.
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 thérémine
- thérémines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce thérémine?
- /te.ʁe.min/
- \te.ʁe.min\
- [te.ʁe.min]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to thérémine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is thérémine in French?
thérémine appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).