thymine
French, noun\ti.min\
thymine is spelled T-H-Y-M-I-N-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 162,920th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Thymine is a French feminine noun meaning “thymine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Base azotée qu’on trouve dans l’ADN, constituée d'un squelette de pyrimidine avec deux groupements cétones et…”.
What does thymine mean in English?
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Base azotée qu’on trouve dans l’ADN, constituée d'un squelette de pyrimidine avec deux groupements cétones et un groupement méthyl.
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 thymine
- thymines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce thymine?
- \ti.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 thymine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is thymine in French?
thymine appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).