wintergreen
French, noun/win.təʁ.ɡʁin/
wintergreen is a French masculine noun meaning “wintergreen (oil)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Huile aromatique tirée de la gaulthérie (Gaultheria procumbens)”.
What does wintergreen mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewintergreen (oil)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Huile aromatique tirée de la gaulthérie (Gaultheria procumbens).
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 wintergreen
- wintergreens plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce wintergreen?
- /win.təʁ.ɡʁin/
- /win.tɛʁ.ɡʁin/
- \vin.tœʁ.ɡʁin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is wintergreen in French?
wintergreen appears about once in every 37 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).