transgène
French, noun/tʁɑ̃s.ʒɛn/
transgène is spelled T-R-A-N-S-G-È-N-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 150,781st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Transgène is a French masculine noun meaning “transgene” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Gène ou séquence isolée d’un gène, transféré d’un organisme à un autre, lors de la mise en œuvre de la…”.
What does transgène mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetransgene
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gène ou séquence isolée d’un gène, transféré d’un organisme à un autre, lors de la mise en œuvre de la transgenèse.
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 transgène
- transgènes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce transgène?
- /tʁɑ̃s.ʒɛn/
- /tʁɑ̃z.ʒɛn/
- \tʁɑ̃s.ʒɛn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to transgène
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is transgène in French?
transgène appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).