trichloréthylène
French, noun/tʁi.klɔ.ʁe.ti.lɛn/
trichloréthylène is spelled T-R-I-C-H-L-O-R-É-T-H-Y-L-È-N-E (16 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 152,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trichloréthylène is a French masculine noun meaning “trichloroethylene” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Solvant toxique, parfois utilisé comme une drogue (sniffé)”.
What does trichloréthylène mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetrichloroethylene
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Solvant toxique, parfois utilisé comme une drogue (sniffé).
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 trichloréthylène
- trichloréthylènes plural
- trichloroéthylène
- trichloréthène
- trichloroéthène
- trichlorure d'éthylène
- trichlorure d'éthène
- trilène
- trichlo diminutive common
- trichlore diminutive
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trichloréthylène?
- /tʁi.klɔ.ʁe.ti.lɛn/
- \tʁi.klɔ.ʁe.ti.lɛn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is trichloréthylène in French?
trichloréthylène 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).