vertèbre
French, noun
vertèbre is spelled V-E-R-T-È-B-R-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,297th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vertèbre is a French feminine noun meaning “vertebra” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, vertébré is a different word: “vertebrate”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chacun des os en forme de petits disques irréguliers qui, s’articulant les uns avec les autres, composent la…”.
What does vertèbre mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininevertebra
noun
- 1
masculinevertebrate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est membre du taxon des vertébrés.
noun: 1. Animal qui est pourvu d'une colonne vertébrale.
noun: 1. Chacun des os en forme de petits disques irréguliers qui, s’articulant les uns avec les autres, composent la colonne vertébrale chez les vertébrés dont l’humain.
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 vertèbre
- vertèbres plural
- vertébrés plural
- vertébrée singular feminine
- vertébrées plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to vertèbre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vertèbre in French?
vertèbre appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).