alopécie
\a.lɔ.pe.si\
The verdict
“alopécie” is uncommon French (frequency #74,539 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,539
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chute des cheveux, et quelquefois des sourcils, de la barbe, etc., avec dénudation de la peau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alopecie · alopécie · French
alopécie · rank #74,539 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,539
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ALN
Nearest frequency peer: ALN (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « alopécie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- allaitant
allaitant
25,465 corpus weight
- alluviales
alluviales
25,464 corpus weight
- ALN
ALN
25,463 corpus weight
- alopécie
alopécie
25,462 corpus weight
- alourdie
alourdie
25,461 corpus weight
- alphas
alphas
25,460 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alopécie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alopécie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lɔ.pe.si\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alopécie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alopécie is uncommon French at frequency #74,539 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.lɔ.pe.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chute des cheveux, et quelquefois des sourcils, de la barbe, etc., avec dénudation de la peau.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alopécie, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is alopécie, spelled A-L-O-P-É-C-I-E.
Definition
- 1Chute des cheveux, et quelquefois des sourcils, de la barbe, etc., avec dénudation de la peau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alopécie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lʼalopécie peut s’accompagner parallèlement dʼasthénie, dʼanémie.
Mais lorsque la chute de cheveux aboutit à une diminution de la densité de capillaire et que le cuir chevelu devient visible, on parle alors d'alopécie.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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