tropopause
French, noun/tʁɔ.pɔ.poz/
tropopause is spelled T-R-O-P-O-P-A-U-S-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written French, the 205,184th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tropopause is a French feminine noun meaning “tropopause” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Surface formée des lieux où la température de l’atmosphère cesse de décroître avec l’altitude”.
What does tropopause mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetropopause
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Surface formée des lieux où la température de l’atmosphère cesse de décroître avec l’altitude.
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 tropopause
- tropopauses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tropopause?
- /tʁɔ.pɔ.poz/
- \tʁɔ.pɔ.poz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tropopause
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tropopause in French?
tropopause appears about once in every 42 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).