tréponème
French, noun\tʁe.pɔ.nɛm\
tréponème is spelled T-R-É-P-O-N-È-M-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written French, the 239,448th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tréponème is a French masculine noun meaning “treponeme” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bactérie de la famille des Spirochaetaceae, commensales chez l’homme et l’animal au niveau de la bouche, du…”.
What does tréponème mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetreponeme
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bactérie de la famille des Spirochaetaceae, commensales chez l’homme et l’animal au niveau de la bouche, du tractus intestinal et de l’appareil urogénital.
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 tréponème
- tréponèmes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tréponème?
- \tʁe.pɔ.nɛm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tréponème in French?
tréponème appears about once in every 58 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).