apoptose
\a.po.ptoz\
The verdict
“apoptose” is uncommon French (frequency #92,422 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,422
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mort cellulaire programmée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apoptose · apoptose · French
apoptose · rank #92,422 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,422
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apnées
Nearest frequency peer: apnées (-2 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 « apoptose »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- apercevrez
apercevrez
7,583 corpus weight
- apitoie
apitoie
7,582 corpus weight
- apnées
apnées
7,581 corpus weight
- apoptose
apoptose
7,579 corpus weight
- appendix
appendix
7,577 corpus weight
- appliquerons
appliquerons
7,576 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apoptose » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apoptose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.po.ptoz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apoptose » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apoptose is uncommon French at frequency #92,422 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.po.ptoz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mort cellulaire programmée.".
Zero misspellings are on record for apoptose in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is apoptose, spelled A-P-O-P-T-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Mort cellulaire programmée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apoptose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans certaines espèces, la mort de l’individu est quasi programmée, ou du moins prédéterminée (apoptose des feuilles d’un arbre).
En tout cas, c’est bien l’environnement de la cellule qui détermine sa forme, la forme même des êtres visibles et, à l’image d'une statue qui prend sa forme sous les coups de burin du sculpteur, l’embryon est sculpté par la destruction des cellules par un phénomène qui s’appelle l’apoptose, ou mort programmée des cellules.
This word in other languages
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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